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P-38 LIGHTNING/42-66905
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Serial #: 42-66905
Construction #: 1417
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
 P-38H-5-LO Lightning
Name: Japanese Sandman II
Status: Stored
Last info: 2014
History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 42-66905.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
- Forced landing in swamp near Dobodura, PNG, December 4, 1943.
- Abandoned in place.
- Flew as Japanese Sandman II/26.
National Museum, Port Moresby, PNG, November 1978-1988.
- Not recovered.
Robert Greinert, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2005-2014.
- Tail booms recovered, shipped to Sydney.
- Tail booms and parts collection.
- Stored Wangaratta, later at HARS 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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