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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-22 / P-38 Lightning
    Latest Model:P-38L-VN Lightning
    Last Military Serial:44-53186 USAAF
    Construction Number:422-8441
    Last Civil Registration:N505MH
    Latest Owner or Location:Lightning Llc, Stow, MA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-38L-VN by Vultee at Nashville, TN, USA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-53186.

    27 June 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL505MH (P-38L, 197425-501) issued.

    By 1969

    To unknown owner with c/r N505MH.


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Santa Barbara.

    1969


    Photographer: Unknown

    17 June 1989


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Biggin Hill.

    21 April 1999

    To Evergreen Vintage Aircraft Inc, McMinnville, OR keeping c/r N505MH.

    Based at Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville, OR.
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    By 23 June 2012

    Markings Applied: 83, 453186

    23 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo at Evergreen Air and Space Museum

    21 May 2013

    To Evergreen Vintage Aircrat Inc, McMinnville, OR keeping c/r N505MH.

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    15 July 2015

    To unknown owner with c/r N505MH.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Auburn, ME.

    4 August 2015

    To Affordable Mid Coast Housing Llc, Auburn, ME keeping c/r N505MH.

    25 March 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Los Angeles County Air Show at Fox Field in Lancaster, California.

    25 March 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Los Angeles County Air Show at Fox Field in Lancaster, California.

    25 March 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Los Angeles County Air Show at Fox Field in Lancaster, California.

    Circa 3 May 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, California.

    20 April 2020

    To Lightning Llc, Stow, MA keeping c/r N505MH.


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    P-Screamers, The History for the Surviving Lockheed P-38 Lightnings (c) 1994 Pictorial Histories Pub by A. Kevin Grantham
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

    Individual Contributors
    Mike Henniger

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