This same pilot, then a Lieutenant, flew the XP-38 across the United States in 1939 and survived the crash that destroyed this Lightning at Mitchel Field, New York. In early 1944, Kelsey was assigned ...

Museum records show that Lockheed assigned the construction number 422-2273 to the National Air and Space Museum's P-38. The Army Air Forces accepted this Lightning as a P-38J-l0-LO on November 6, ...

One of the weirdest-looking planes in warfare was also one of the best. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning struck fear into the hearts of the enemy.

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was developed in the late 1930s as a long range fighter plane capable of doing whatever it is you asked it to do.

At the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plant in Burbank, three new mechanized conveyor lines help double the production of the P-38 Lightning, an advanced high-altitude fighter plane.

Less than five miles north of Brightwood - deep in the protected Bull Run watershed - lies the place where a young World War ...

Summary and Key Points: The Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the first aircraft produced by Skunk Works under Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, played a pivotal role in World War II. Some experts declare ...

Because it spent its early days as an aviation fuel truck at Lockheed's plant in Burbank, California. And apparently, it was used to fuel the P-38 Lightning fighters that were built there during ...

Lightning II was picked from a shortlist of names that included Black Mamba, Cyclone, Piasa and Spitfire II, and tips the hat to both the US Air Force’s Lockheed P-38 Lightning and the UK Royal ...

The prized piece of artwork is a hand-crafted replica of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft, made from several pieces of ammunition Miller retrieved from a mud hole on the island.