Registration / Serial:1
Aircraft Original Type:Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Aircraft Generic Type:Lockheed P-38/F-5 Lightning
Aircraft Version:Lockheed P-38L Lightning
C/n (msn):422-6790
Operator Titles:Yugoslavia - Air Force
City / Airport:Belgrade - Nikola Tesla (LYBE / BEG)Map
Country:Serbia
Collection:Muzej Vazduhoplovstva Beograd
Photo Date:9 July 2019
Photo by:Peter VercruijsseContact
Photo ID:509771Submit Correction
View count: 178
Delivered to the USAAF as 44-25786, it was damaged by anti-aircraft fire over Austria on 02-Apr-1945 and made an emergency landing at Sombor in Yugoslavia. It carried a 37th FS squadron code 1 and a small number 181 on the rudder. It was taken over by the Yugoslav Air Force keeping the 1 as identity, making its first flight 19-May-1945. It continued test flying into 1946. That same year it went to the Technical University in Belgrade, and in 1989 the incomplete airframe arrived at the Muzej Vazduhoplovstva Beograd. For bookkeeping serial 9751 was later assigned but never carried.
Registration / Serial:1
Aircraft Version:Lockheed P-38L Lightning
C/n (msn):422-6790
Operator Titles:Yugoslavia - Air Force
City / Airport:Belgrade - Nikola Tesla (LYBE / BEG)Map
Country:Serbia
Photo Date:9 July 2019
Photo by:Peter VercruijsseContact
Registration / Serial:1
Aircraft Original Type:Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Aircraft Generic Type:Lockheed P-38/F-5 Lightning
Aircraft Version:Lockheed P-38L Lightning
C/n (msn):422-6790
Operator Titles:Yugoslavia - Air Force
City / Airport:Belgrade - Nikola Tesla (LYBE / BEG)Map
Country:Serbia
Collection:Muzej Vazduhoplovstva Beograd
Photo Date:9 July 2019
Photo by:Peter VercruijsseContact
Photo ID:509771Submit Correction
View count: 178
Delivered to the USAAF as 44-25786, it was damaged by anti-aircraft fire over Austria on 02-Apr-1945 and made an emergency landing at Sombor in Yugoslavia. It carried a 37th FS squadron code 1 and a small number 181 on the rudder. It was taken over by the Yugoslav Air Force keeping the 1 as identity, making its first flight 19-May-1945. It continued test flying into 1946. That same year it went to the Technical University in Belgrade, and in 1989 the incomplete airframe arrived at the Muzej Vazduhoplovstva Beograd. For bookkeeping serial 9751 was later assigned but never carried.
Registration / Serial:1
Aircraft Version:Lockheed P-38L Lightning
C/n (msn):422-6790
Operator Titles:Yugoslavia - Air Force
City / Airport:Belgrade - Nikola Tesla (LYBE / BEG)Map
Country:Serbia
Photo Date:9 July 2019
Photo by:Peter VercruijsseContact