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P-38 LIGHTNING/42-12847
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Serial #: 42-12847
Construction #: 222-7281
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
 P-38G-5-LO Lightning
Name: Dumbo!
Status: Stored
Last info: 2014
History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 42-12847.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
- Marked as 37/Dumbo!.
Robert Greinert, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2002-2014.
- Derelict hulk recovered from Solomon Islands.
- Shipped to Australia via Papua New Guinea, July 2002.
- Arrived at Sydney-Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia, July 2002.
- Stored, 2002-2005.
- Erucked from Bankstown to Wangaratta, New South Wales, Australia, April 22, 2005.
- Hulk stored Wangaratta, later at Albion Park, New South Wales, Australia.
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.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2023.
Joe Baugher's Serial Numbers Page.
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