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Lockheed P-38 Lightning/44-53247
lockheed p-38 lightning 44-53247 N90813
P-38 Lightning
At the Pima County Air Museum on November 24, 1986 P-38 Lightning
 P-38 Lightning
 P-38 Lightning
Aero Service Corporation F-5G N90813 sits wingless in the yet to open Pima County Air Museum on April 27, 1975. P-38 Lightning
Restored as stock F-5G 44-53247 in olive drab over gray at the Pima County Air Museum on December 18, 1979.
Serial #: 44-53247
Construction #: 8502
Civ. Registration:
  NX90813
  N90813
Model(s):
  P-38L
  F-5G
Name: None
Status: Destroyed
Last info: 1990
   History:
Wesley M. Gray, Long Beach, CA, 1946.
- Registered as NX90813.
- Acquired from War Assets Administration, Kingman, AZ, Feb. 1946.
Robert M. Love & Nancy Harkness-Love, DE, 1946.
Cecil W. Kenyon, Oct. 1946.
- Used for avionics testing.
Aero Service Corp., Philadelphia, PA., May 1951-1960
- Registered as N90813.
Virgil Kaufman Foundation, Philadelphia, PA., Dec. 1960-1961
Bob Bean Aircraft, Blythe, CA., May 1961-1970.
- Stored Blythe, CA 1961-1970.
USAF Museum, Pima County Museum, Tucson, AZ, 1972-1989.
- Displayed as 453247.
Musee de l'Air, Paris-Le Bourget, France, May 26, 1989-1990
- Destroyed by hanger fire, Le Bouget, May 17, 1990.
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.
 Photo Source(s):
Bill Word
Brian Lockett - Goleta Air & Space Museum
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