I'm afraid you're a little confused - the Lightning II was the YF-23, which was completely unrelated and is, sadly, not available in 1/48th outside specialist resin companies. Beautiful plane, deserves to be the subject of a decent kit even if it did lose to the F-22.

Just my two cents. I believe the YF-23 was built by Northrop-Grumman, it was called the Black Widow II because of its heritage. The aircraft even at one point had a red hourglass shape painted on the underside of the aircraft. The YF-22 was at one point I think designated Lightning II because Lockheed-Martin built the aircraft. The name Raptor is the official designation. I hope this is right, memory being what it is.

It's also not really accurate to refer to the EE Lightning as now being the BAe Lightning - almost every British aircraft company got absorbed into BAe, and now BAe is BAE and is multi-national rather than British, but we don't refer to the BAe Spitfire, or the BAe Camel. The Lightning was only ever the English Electric or BAC Lightning, as far as I know.

As for the F-35, Panda's 1/48th kits are quite nice, but you have to bear in mind that they're guesses based on pics of prototypes rather than accurate models. Doesn't mean you can't make a nice kit from them though. Their F-35K (fictitious designation, I think) Royal Navy FAA version's going to build up nicely - right now I'm unsure whether to go with the suggested kit scheme or the one they're putting on Harrier GR.Mk 9s.

Al