Serial #: 44-53254
Construction #: 8509
Civil Registration:
  NX25Y
  N25Y

Model(s):
  P-38L Lightning
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2025

Delivered to United States Army Air Force as 44-53254, 19??.
Lilee Products Co, Chicago, IL, April 1946.
- Acquired from War Assets Administration, Kingman, AZ for $1250.
- Registered as NX25Y.
J. D. ReedCo, Houston, TX, 1947-1953
- Flown as Bendix Racer #14/"Sky Ranger"
Hugh Wells, Baltimore, MD, 1953.
- Registered as N25Y.
Sylvan Lair & Vernon Thorpe, Yukon, OK, 1962-1963
Marvin L. Gardner & Lloyd Nolan/Confederate Air Force, Mercedes, TX, 1964-1970.
Joe Henderson/CAF, Brownwood, TX, 1972
Marvin L Gardner, Harlingen & Austin, TX, 1977-2005
- Flown as race #25 (later #13) "White Lightnin"
- Crash landed after engine failure, Greenwood, MS, June 25, 2001.
Flying Red Bulls collection, Salzburg, Austria, 2005-2025.
- Stored on wheels but damaged, Burnet, TX, 2004.
- Transported by road to Breckenridge, TX, 2004.
- Restored to airworthy by Ezell Aviation, 2004-2008.
- First flight, Breckenridge, TX, June 3, 2008.
- Flown polished metal finish with USAAC markings.
- Flown to Pensacola, FL, January 2009.
- Shipped to Hamburg, arriving March 6, 2009.
- Flown to Salzburg, March 9, 2009.
- Flown in polished metal finish with Red Bull logo on nose.

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Note: also reported as C/N 5339, S/N 44-24335; changed to 44-53254, July 2007.