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P-38 LIGHTNING/44-53254
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"White Lightnin" after it's 2001 accident. P-38 Lightning
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N25Y during the 1948 National Air Races.
Serial #: 44-53254
Construction #: 8509
Civil Registration:
  NX25Y
  N25Y
Model: P-38L
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2007
Note: also reported as C/N 5339, S/N 44-24335
History:
Lilee Products Co, Chicago, IL, Apr. 1946.
- Acquired from War Assets Administration, Kingman, AZ for $1250.
- Registered as NX25Y.
J. D. ReedCo, Houston, TX, 1947-1953
- Flown as Bendix Racer #14/"Sky Ranger"
Hugh Wells, Baltimore, MD, 1953.
- Registered as N25Y.
Sylvan Lair & Vernon Thorpe, Yukon, OK, 1962-1963
Marvin L. Gardner & Lloyd Nolan/Confederate Air Force, Mercedes, TX, 1964-1970.
Joe Henderson/CAF, Brownwood, TX, 1972
Marvin L Gardner, Harlingen & Austin, TX, 1977-2005
- Flown as race #25 (later #13) "White Lightnin"
- Crash landed after engine failure, Greenwood, MS, June 25, 2001.
Red Bull, Salsburg, Austria, 2005-2007.
- Under restoration to airworthy by Ezell Aviation.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
 Photo Source(s):
Unknown.
Tom Griffith
Brian Lockett - Goleta Air & Space Museum
Research Assistance:
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