Lockheed P-38L Lightning

Specifications
Aircraft Type:	Fighter
First Flight:	XP-38, January 1939
Wingspan:	52 feet
Length:	37 feet 10 inches
Height:	12 feet 10 inches
Weight:	12,800 pounds
Capacity:	One
Status:	Display - Flyable

With four .50 caliber machine guns and a 20-mm cannon nestled in its nose, the P-38 had enough firepower to sink a ship. A radical design, it was twice the size and had twice the power of any U.S. fighter when it first flew in 1939. In the Pacific, P-38 Lightnings ambushed Japanese Admiral Yamamoto’s plane, killing the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Delivered to the United States Army Air Force near the end of World War II, this P-38 was converted into an F-5G photoreconnaissance aircraft. Today it honors Oregon native and Pacific Theater’s highest scoring ace Lt. Colonel Gerald Richard Johnson, with 24 victories. This Lightning remains flyable.