Post by Major Destruction on Nov 4, 2005 16:38:53 GMT -5
J. Roy Shoffner, owner of Glacier Girl, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning recovered from 268 feet beneath the ice in Greenland in 1992, died September 24. He was a resident of Harrogate, Tennessee, a half mile from where Glacier Girl is on display at The Lost Squadron Museum in Middlesboro, Kentucky. Unrelated to his death, the museum's board had decided not to fly Glacier Girl before spring of 2006 and had suspended flight insurance, which was costing $20,000 a year. Although the possibility remains open that it might fly next year, there are currently no plans to do so. The museum was able to insure only $2 million of the $10 million value of the aircraft due to refusal of the insurance industry to insure the full amount. The aircraft is Shoffner's tribute to the veterans of World War II. Shoffner made his fortune in plastic pipe, real estate, and Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises.