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• Aircraft Type: Lockheed F-5G Lightning
  Constructor's Number (MSN): 8038
  Place of manufacture: Burbank CA
  Date Built: 1944
  Registration: CF-GSP
  Operator: Spartan Air Services Ltd
  Previous Identities: USAAF 44-27034, NL68123
  Notes and comments: Misery. The end of the line for CF-GSP after sliding of the end of an icy runway while making a precautionary landing at the Northern Ordnance Corporation airfield, Minneapolis, 25 November 1951. The crew, left to right, Leonard McHale, engineer, James Lago, pilot and Jack Fleming, pilot riding as passenger. Lago, a wartime Lancaster pilot, would die in the crash of Lightning CF-GKH in 1953.
• Photographer: unknown
  Location: Northern Ordnance Factory airfield, Minneapolis MN
  Date Photographed: 25 November 1951
  Original Media: Star Tribune photograph
  Registration: CF-GSP
  Digitized: 13 August 2022
  Posted to GAA: 13 August 2022
  GAA Image Number: 51895-1
  Notes and comments:
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