[Charles Martel]

I remember seeing an article in Air & Space - Smithsonian about the number of aircraft scrapped at the end of the war. Quite a large number of P-38s appear to have gone directly from the factory to the boneyard, so plenty of attrition was obviously expected during the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands.

Now the Lightnings are so rare that people will dig one out of arctic ice:

[longtermmemmory]

just imagine if the 3d printer conversation here a few days ago was redirected towards building P-38 lightnings.

A real deal printed airplane.