Serial #: 42-66841
Construction #: 1352
Civil Registration:
  None

Model(s):
  P-38H-5-LO Lightning
Name: Scarlet Scourge
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2015

History:
Manufactured in the last run of 375 early model Lockheed Lightnings.
- Aircraft number 114 on the assembly line, July 1943.
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 42-66841, 19??.
- Allocated to the 475th FG/432nd FS/5th AF
-- Given squadron aircraft number 153.
- Flown by 2nd Lt. Edward G Dickey. Total of 106 missions in Lightnings.
-- Credited with a probable 'Oscar' over Rabaul PNG in 1943.
- Crash landing by unknown pilot, Brahmin, near Madang, PNG, September 20, 1943.
- Stripped and abandoned.
Gary R. Larkins, Auburn, CA, 1992.
- Intact hulk recoverd from Faita, Ramu Valley, PNG, 1992.
- Airlifted by chopper to Nadzab, 1992.
- Marked with 841 on tail, and white code 53.
Jack A. Erickson, Medford, OR, 1992.
- Impounded by PNG government on wharf, Lae, May 1992.
National Museum, Port Moresby, PNG, 1992-1997.
- Hulk stored, unrestored, Nadzab, 1992-1997.
Bob Jarrett/Classic Jets Fighter Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, April 1997-2014.
- Shipped from Lae to Adelaide, May 17, 1999.
- Displayed while under restoration.
- Restoration complete, May 2, 2006.
- Displayed in USAAF scheme as “153 Scarlet Scourge”.
David Arnold/Flying A Services, Bentwaters, UK, 2014-2015.
- Shipped to UK, moved by road ex port to Bentwaters, Suffolk, September 24, 2014.
- Under restoration to airworthy.