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P-38 LIGHTNING/44-27025
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Serial #: 44-27025
Construction #: 8029
Civil Registration:
  NX64506
  CF-GSQ
  N5597V
  EC-WNU
  EC-ANU
Model(s):
  P-38L Lightning
  F-5G Lightning
Name: None
Status: Scrapped
Last info: 1969
Delivered to the United States Army Air Force as 44-27025.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
Roy J. Carver/Carver Pump Co, IA, June 1946-1948.
- Registered as NX64506.
- Certificate of Airworthiness issued, June 18, 1946.
E.H. Owen/Owen & Hess, Cedar Rapids, IA, September 1, 1948-1950.
Spartan Air Services Ltd, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, November 27, 1950-1956.
- Ferry permit issued for Cedar Rapids to Ottawa, November 1950.
- Registered as CF-GSQ, May 9, 1951.
- Test flown after modification, May 17, 1951.
- Certificate of Airworthiness issued, May 9, 1951.
- Total airframe time quoted as only 62 hrs,
Hycon Aerial Surveys, Pasadena, CA, May 28, 1956-1957.
- Registered as N5597V.
- Registered ad EC-WNU for ferry flight from USA to Spain, 1957.
- Planned for photographic survey in Angola.
- Suffere nose gear collapse Madrid-Bajas Airport.
- Did not enter service.
Aerotecnica SA, Madrid, 1960-1969.
- Registered as EC-ANU.
- Open storage, Madrid marked as EC-WNU, 1963-1969.
- Scrapped Madrid, 1969.
- Struck-off register, October 17, 1969.

USCR and CCR quoted construction number as 8204.
Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2023.
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