Serial #: 44-53078
Construction #: 422-8333
Civil Registration:
  NX21764
  NL21764
  N21764
  N504MH

Model(s):
  P-38L-5-LO Lightning
  F-5G Lightning
Name: None
Status: Wrecked
Last info: 1990

History:
Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 44-53078.
- BOC: N/A
- SOC: N/A
Anthony W. LeVier, Burbank, CA, January 30, 1946-1948.
- Purchased from War Assets Administration, Kingman, AZ, January 23, 1946.
- Registered as NX21764.
- Flew as race #3/Fox of the Skyways.
-- Placed 2nd in Thompson Trophy Race at the National Air Races, Cleveland, OH, 1946.
Butler Co, Chicago, IL, March 16, 1948-1950.
- Registered as NL21764.
Joseph J. Bulger, Chicago, IL, April 14, 1950-1951.
- Registered as N21764.
Ford E. Slagle, Chicago, IL, February 5, 1951.
K.C. Benbow, Greensboro, NC, October 7, 1951-1953.
Mark Hurd Aerial Surveys, Minneapolis, MN, March 12, 1953-1958.
- Used in survey operations in Europe and Ethiopia, October 1957-June 1958.
Mark Hurd Aerial Surveys, Minneapolis, MN, March 1958-1965.
- Registered as N504MH.
J. Byron Roche, St. Cloud, MN, May 24, 1965.
- Crashed after fuel ran out, burned on impact, near Los Olivos, CA, August 4, 1965.
-- Roche bailed out but was suffered fatal injuries.
Dave Horn, Santa Maria, CA, 1990.
- Wreckage salvaged and trucked to Santa Maria, CA.
- Later trucked to Chino by Fighter Rebuilders Inc, 1990.
- To be used as patterns for parts of rebuild of N3145X, circa 1990.