Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:51 am
T J Johansen wrote:I think the red painted remains at MoF that went to Tom Reilly's was off of N57496 which crashed in California and not Yippee. They were sold to a new owner later I believe.
T J
Ooops..thanks for clearing that up TJ..a Yippie feeding frenzy, sorry..not N138X..
Tho..we shouldn't forget N57496 in the rush. 
Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:22 am
T J Johansen wrote:warbird1 wrote:T J Johansen wrote:I think the red painted remains at MoF that went to Tom Reilly's was off of N57496 which crashed in California and not Yippee. They were sold to a new owner later I believe.
T J
Oh, perhaps I was mistaken then. I thought it was Yippee. Who was the new owner?
Not sure about the owner.
Just in case people are confused about the a/c mentioned in this thread it ought to be said that we are talking about 3 different planes. Jesse C. appears to be interested in the colors of the original "Yippee", the 5000th P-38 built by Lockheed. Martin has supplied us with a photo of Darrel Greenamyer's N138X which he had painted in the same colors, and since he worked for Lockheed he might have gotten the paint specs. right. The last a/c warbird1 mentions is an F-5G that raced in Cleveland, which was later used as a weather modification plane. It crashed in the 1960s.
P.S. Jesse C., you know that Superscale issued "Yippee" as decals some years ago?
T J
Hey TJ
Funny you should mention that! This is the very reason I am asking about the color. I scored a set of those decals recently and I just go my hands on a kit to put them on! Thanks for all the info!
Jesse
Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:11 pm
