Lockheed P-38J
N988J is a Lockheed P-38J, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboshaft engines, built in 1942. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wartime History Museum INC, a corporation in Tacoma, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 31, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lockheed
- Model
- P-38J · all P-38Js and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Lockheed P-38 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 42-103988
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Allison V1710 SERIES · 1500 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 288 mph
- Transponder code
- ADC9A4 (octal 53344644)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 31, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01481156
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wartime History Museum INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2602 S 38Th St Ste A
Tacoma, WA 98409-7303
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N988J links to the rest of the register
- Lockheed P-38 13 registered
- Lockheed 197 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) V1710 series 70 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- Wartime History Museum INC 27 aircraft in the fleet
- Tacoma, WA 137 aircraft registered in this town
- Tacoma Narrows Airport · TIW
- Washington 10,633 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lockheed P-38 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Lockheed P-38 4 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) V1710 series 5 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N988J, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Wartime History Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 11, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 31, 2025, 83 years after the 1942 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42-103988 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N988J according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N988J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data