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P-38 LIGHTNING/44-53087
"Marge"
P-38 Lightning
P-38 Lightning
 P-38 Lightning
 P-38 Lightning
Serial #: 44-53087
Construction #: 8342
Civil Registration:
  NX62887
  N62887
  CF-GDS
  N1107V
  YV-C-BAR
  N3800L
   Model(s):
  P-38L Lightning
  P-38M
Name: Marge
Status: Display
Last info: 2007
History:
Forrest M. Bird/Bird Aviation, Long Beach, CA, Mar. 25, 1946
- Registered as NX62887.
David A. Bishop, Green Bay, WI, June 13, 1946
Ralph B. Lenz, De Pere, WI, Sep. 14, 1946-1947
R.C. Allwon, Wichita, KS, May 26, 1947-1948.
George L. Harte, Denton, TX, June 25, 1948-1951.
- Registered as N62887.
Spartan Air Services Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario, Dec. 1951-1956.
- Registered as CF-GDS, June 1952.
- Damaged during landing (repaired), Seven Islands, Quebec, Apr. 19, 1953.
Hycon Aerial Surveys Inc., Pasadena, CA, May 23, 1956-1958.
- Registered as N1107V.
Vern W. Cartwright/Cartwright Aerial Surveys, Sacramento, CA, May 12, 1958-1959.
Cartwright Aerial Surveys, Caracas, Sep. 1959.
- Registered as YV-C-BAR.
Cartwright Aerial Surveys, Sacramento, CA, 1961.
- Reregistered as N1107V.
Marvin L. Gardner & Lloyd P. Nolan/ Lightning & Co, Mercedes, TX, Sep. 12, 1961-1964
Robert H Kucera/Kucera & associates Inc, Cleveland, OH, Apr. 3, 1964-1967
- Used for surveys in South America.
A. G. Wilson/Wilson Flight Training Center, Kansas City, KS, Jan. 12, 1967
Mark Hurd Aerial Surveys, Santa Barbara, CA, Mar. 22, 1967-1968.
- Retired and stored, Santa Barbara, CA, Jan. 1968.
Wilson Flight Training Center, Kansas City, KS, Feb. 23, 1968-1969
Peter W. Kahn/Corporate Air Motive, San Jose, CA, July 3, 1969-1970
Peter W. Kahn, Danville, IL, July 1970-1973.
- Registered as N3800L
- Restored, fitted with P-38E nose from MGM studios.
Jack Flaherty/Flaherty Factors, Monterey, CA, Mar. 27, 1973.
Wilson C. Edwards, Big Spring, TX, Sep. 4, 1973-1981.
EAA Aviation Foundation, Oshkosh, WI, Dec. 7, 1981-2007.
- Maintained airworthy.
- Displayed as Richard Bong's "210399/597/Marge".
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.
Joe Baugher's Serial Numbers Page
 Photo Source(s):
Jim Sterling
Bill Calmes/Cartwright Aerial Surveys, Inc.
Research Assistance:
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