Lightning, the first aircraft produced by Skunk Works under Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, played a pivotal role in World War II.

Richard Bong - the deadliest American WWII pilot - amassed 40 air-to-air kills with the P-38 Lightning. Bong transitioned ...

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning served the United States armed forces primarily in the Pacific theater of World War II and was utilized in just about every role possible ranging from a bomber escort ...

At the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plant in Burbank, three new mechanized conveyor lines help double the production of the P-38 Lightning, an advanced high-altitude fighter plane.

Lockheed and Convair finished 10,038 P-38 aircraft including 500 photo-reconnaissance models. They built more L models, 3,923, than any other version. To ease control and improve stability, ...

Lockheed and Convair finished 10,038 P-38 aircraft including 500 photo-reconnaissance models. They built more L models, 3,923, than any other version. To ease control and improve stability, ...

Because it spent its early days as an aviation fuel truck at Lockheed's plant in Burbank, California. And apparently, it was used to fuel the P-38 Lightning fighters that were built there during ...

It flew across the Pacific in World War II, and was scrapped and buried in Papua New Guinea afterward — but the Lockheed P-38 Lightning landed a home Thursday at the National Museum of World War ...

Lockheed P-38. The Hughes XF-11, a Behemoth That Never Made It Out of Testing The aircraft was capable of reaching 42,000 feet with a 5,000-mile range and thought to be an ideal solution for ...

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning Fighter plane crashed off Wales in September 1942 Second Lt. Robert F. Elliott, 24, survived the crash but was missing in action later ...

Valued at $260 million, the contract was awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, NJ. Per the terms of the agreement, Lockheed Martin will offer structural mid-life ...

The P-38 model was finished two days before Christmas in 1945, and Miller adorned it with the words "Okinawa" and "1945" to commemorate the time and location of its creation.