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P-38 LIGHTNING/43-2181
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Serial #: 43-2181
Construction #: 3290
Civil Registration:
  NX5101N
Model(s):
  P-38F-15-LO Lightning
Name: The Flying Shamrock
Status: Crashed
Last info: 1947
History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 43-2181.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
J. D. Reed, Houston, TX, June 1947.
- Registered as NX5101N.
- Acquired from War Assets Administration, Walnut Ridge, AR.
Glenn H. McCarthy/McAcrthy Oil & Gas Corp, Houston, TX, July 21, 1947.
- To be flown as race #88/The Flying Shamrock
- In-flight fire en route to Cleveland Air Races, crashed near Winslow, AZ, August 30, 1947.
-- Pilot James Rubel baled out.

(id also rep as P-38H 44-3337
USCR quotes id.”1913060”

Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-5th Edition, 2008.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2023.
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