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Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, World War II fighter plane, 41-7630, c/n 222-5757, restored to flying condition after being buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet for over 50 years. Glacier Girl was part of the Lost Squadron.
P-38 Glacier Girl. Glacier Girl (41-7630), this P-38F-1 flown by 1st Lt. Harry L. Smith Jr., 94th Fighter Squadron, was one of six P-38 fighters of the 1st Fighter Group escorting two B-17 bombers on a ferry flight to the United Kingdom as part of Operation Bolero on 15 July 1942.
In 2006, the organization purchased both the F8F Rare Bear and the P-38 Glacier Girl. [4] [5] By 2012, it operated a team at the Reno Air Races called Lewis Air Racing. [6] The organization purchased a VC-121A used by General Douglas MacArthur from the Planes of Fame Air Museum in 2015 and began restoring it to airworthy condition. [7]
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on ...
The Learjet 55 departed Northeast Philadelphia Airport at about 6:30 p.m. ET bound for Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri, and the pilot did not mention any problems in recorded air ...
Around 3:18 p.m. Thursday, the plane had “some kind of event which caused them to experience a rapid loss in elevation and a rapid loss in speed,” US Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Benjamin McIntyre ...
Glacier Girl: Lockheed P-38 Lightning: Fighter 1942 Forced to land in Greenland in 1942 along with five other P-38s and two B-17s (including My Gal Sal, listed below). Recovered in 1992. Hawker Hurricane PZ865: Hawker Hurricane: Fighter Royal Air Force: 1944- Last Hurricane produced. Retained by Hawker Aircraft for trials work.
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