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Lockheed P-38 Lightning
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Amerikaans jachtvliegtuig
Key facts
- Type
- Fighter Fighter-bomber Aerial reconnaissance
- National origin
- United States
- Manufacturer
- Lockheed Corporation
- Primary users
- United States Army Air Forces Free French Air Force
- Number built
- 10,037
- Manufactured
- 1941–45
- Introduction date
- July 1941
- First flight
- 27 January 1939
- Retired
- 1949 (United States Air Force) , 1965 ( Honduran Air Force )
- Developed into
- Lockheed XP-49 , Lockheed XP-58
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- twin-boom aircraft
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Country of origin
- United States
- Developer
- Lockheed Martin
- Manufacturer
- Lockheed Corporation
- Designed by
- Hall Hibbard
- Image
- Lockheed P-38J Lightning, Chino, California.jpg
- Height
- 3.00
- Length
- 11.53
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- Commons category
- Lockheed P-38 Lightning
- Commons gallery
- Lockheed P-38 Lightning
- first flight
- 1939-01-27
- total produced
- 10037
- service entry
- 1943-00-00
- service retirement
- 1949-00-00
- wingspan
- 15.85
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Article · Nederlands
De Lockheed P-38 Lightning was in de periode 1942-1945 een van de beste Amerikaanse jachtvliegtuigen. Dit toestel was zo snel, krachtig en betrouwbaar dat het in vele rollen op het strijdtoneel rond de Grote Oceaan en in Europa werd ingezet.
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