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Serial #: 43-50281 Construction #: 8638-VN Civil Registration: NX33638 N33638 N138X N38LL Model(s): P-38L F-5G Name: Scatterbrain Kid Status: Destroyed Last info: 1974 |
History: Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Van Nuys, CA, 1946-1947. - Acquired as surplus, Kingman, AZ, 1946. - Registered as NX33638. Acquired by FA Boliviana as FAB ?, 1949. - Not delivered, stored Washington, D.C., 1949-1950. Jack P. Hardwick, El Monte, CA, 1950. - Delivered from Washington to CA for survey conversion, 1950. Fairchild Aerial Survey, Van Nuys, CA, 1951-1963. - Registered as N33638. Luther O. Eldridge, Monrovia, CA, 1963. Darryl Greenamyer, Burbank, CA, Sept. 1963-1967. - Reportred fitted with camera nose, July 1964. - Registered as N138X, 1966. - Flown as racer #1 "Yippie" still with camera nose. Revis Sirmon/Coastal Chemical Co., Abbeville, LA., 1968-1974. - Registered as N38LL. - Fitted with fighter nose. - Flown as racer #1 (Later #38) "Scatterbrain Kid. - Crashed and destroyed, Lafayette, LA, Oct. 19, 1974. -- Pilot George Harper fatally injured. |
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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. NTSB, www.ntsb.gov |
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