- 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
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