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Help with a P38 serial number please
Help Please with a P-38 serial number.
From "Lockheed P-38 Lightning in Italian Service 1943-1955" by Marco Mattioli. Pages 26 & 28 show a photo of the nose of an F-5 which has a number "7316" on its nose. The caption says it is an F-5 serial number 44-67316. This cannot be as that serial number belonged to a Radioplane OQ-3RPP. The only P-38/F-5 that I can find with the number 7316 that would match is 42-67316. Can any one help with any details of 42-67316 please as there seems to be nothing known of her . Thanks Alex |
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Re: Help with a P38 serial number please
Alex !
The book is wrong in this detail. According Warren M. Bodie's book "THE LOCHEED P-38 LIGHTNING", the serial-block 42-67312 to 42-67401 was the "last production of F-5s. P-38Js with camera noses". There is definitely no serial-block 44-67... on a Lockheed P-38 (F-5) LIGHTNING. Hope this helps a bit. Best regards Horst Weber |
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Re: Help with a P38 serial number please
Hello Horst,
Yes I have to agree with you . 42-67316 is the correct one. Must have been a misprint or printers error. many thanks for your reply. Alex |
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Re: Help with a P38 serial number please
The 4 digit number on the nose of a P-38 usually was the Lockheed construction number. There were two P-38s with that construction number. P-39G 222-7316 (222-7305/7401 42-12870/12966) and P-38L 422-7316 (422-6063/8262 44-25059/27258). The one you're looking for is probably among the latter, as 500 aircraft from this block was converted to F-5Es. If my arithmetic is correct the USAAC serial for 422-7316 would be 44-26312. Hope this helps. Source: P-38 Lightning At War
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Re: Help with a P38 serial number please
Related link: http://forum.armyairforces.com/tm.aspx?m=117643
P-38 44-23725. stolen by Monti 10/13/1944: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=58686 |
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