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P-38 LIGHTNING/44-25786
Lockheed P-38 Lightning 44-25786
Serial #: 44-25786
Construction #: 6790
Civil Registration:
  None
Model(s):
 P-38L-5-LO Lightning
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 2025
History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 44-25786.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
- Emergency landed, Sombor Airfield, April 2, 1945.
- Impounded by Yugoslav AF.
- Pilot returned to Italy.
- Aircraft "acquired" by 111st Fighter Wing/Yugoslav Army Aviation.
-- Test flown from 1945-1946.
Technical University, Belgrade, 1946-1989.
- disassembled and stored.
Yugoslavian Aviation Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1980-1989.
- Stored, incomplete airframe.
-- Forward fuselage, one wing and undercarriage.
Aeronautical Museum Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 1989-2025.
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.
Yu Model Club
Photo Source(s):
Unknown

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