Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, World War II fighter plane, 41-7630, c/n 222-5757, restored to flying condition after being buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet for over 50 years.
All the crew members were subsequently rescued, but Glacier Girl, along with the unit's five other fighters and the two B-17's, were eventually buried under 268 feet (82 m) of snow and ice that built up over the ensuing decades.
[3] On June 22, 2007, Glacier Girl departed Teterboro Airport, New Jersey, in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic Ocean to Duxford, England, to complete the flight it had begun 65 years earlier.
[5] In April 2016, a team en route to the crash site in Greenland and under the guidance of veteran pilot and explorer, Ron Sheardown, was interviewed while at the airport in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada,[6] regarding plans to recover a second P-38.
Led by entrepreneurs Ken McBride and Jim Salazar, the group of a dozen Canadian and American explorers who have been working on the project since 2010 will attempt to extract the P-38 Echo, piloted by Capt.