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P-38 LIGHTNING/42-12652
Lockheed P-38 Lightning 42-12652
Serial #: 42-12652
Construction #: 7086
Civil Registration:
  N12652
Model(s):
 P-38E-2-LO Lightning
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2024
History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 42-12652.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
- Coded "33".
- Sufffered gear collapsed during landing Finshaffen, New Guinea, June 6, 1944.
- Wreck buried Finshaffen.
- Excavated, December 1999.
2 stripped P-38 hulks recovered to Australa from PNG, circa 1998.
Bruno Carnovale& Ian Whitney/75 Squadron, Melbourne, Victoria, 1998-2002.
- Shipped to Melbourne via Lae, PNG, December 1999.
-- Along with P-38/42-103988 & 3 P-47D hulks.
- Airframes stored Woodend, Victoria.
Jeff Thomas, Arlington, WA, 2001.
- Trucked Woodend to Port Melbourne, February 7, 2002.
Flying Heritage Collection, Bellevue, WA, 2002-2005.
- Both P-38 airframes shipped to USA for restoration, Rialto, CA, February 2002.
National Museum of World War Two Aviation, Colorado Springs-Municiple, CO, 2009-2015.
- Restoration continued as "White 33" at Colorado Springs, CO, 2014.
Westpac Restorations Inc, Colorado Springs, CO, October 15, 2015-2016.
- Registered as N12652.
Jim Slattery/White 33 LLC, Bellevue, WA, December 6, 2016-2024.
- First flight, Colorado Springs, CO, 2016.
- Flown as USAAC “White 33”.
Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2023.
Flightaware.
Federal Aviation Administration.
Joe Baugher's Serial Numbers Page.
Photo Source(s):
Rian Olsen Collection

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