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Lockheed P-38 Lightning/41-7630
"Glacier Girl"

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Serial #: 41-7630
Construction #: 5757
Civil Registration:
  N5757
  N17630
Model: P-38F-1-LO
Name: Glacier Girl
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2007
   History:
Delivered to USAAF as 41-7630, 19??.
- Crashed on glacier, July 15, 1942.
Pat Epps/Greenland Expedition Society, 1981-1994.
- Recovered from under 260 feet of ice, 1990-1992.
Roy Schoffner/Greenland Expedition Society/The Lost Squadron, Atlanta, GA, Jan. 12, 1994-2003.
- Registered as N5757.
- Restored to airworthy, Middlesboro, KY.
- Engine run up for first time, Sept. 2001.
- First flight, Oct. 26, 2002
- Flown as 17630/Glacier Girl.
Rod Lewis/Lewis Aeronautical LLC, San Antonio, TX, March 2007.
- Registered as N17630.
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.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, 2007.
Joe Baugher's Serial Numbers Page
 Photo Source(s):
Chris Fahey via Steve Hinton.
Mint Moore III.
Pat Carry.
Robert N. Abbott Jr.
Brian Lockett - Goleta Air & Space Museum
Research Assistance:
Pat Carry/WIX