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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-10 Electra
    Latest Model:XR20-1
    Last Military Serial:0267 USN
    Construction Number:1052
    Last Civil Registration:N57573
    Compressed ID:Lockheed XR20-1 sn 0267 USN cn 1052...
    Latest Owner or Location:New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT

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    Dates

    Event

    1936

    Constructed as a XR20-1.

    19 February 1936

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 0267.

    February 1936

    Transferred to NAS Anacostia, Washington, DC.
    For use as a staff transport by the Secretary of the Navy.

    September 1944

    Transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

    5 May 1945

    To Noble Drilling Corporation with new c/r NC57573.

    1952

    To Noble Drilling Corporation with new c/r N57573.

    7 April 1953

    To Associated Transport, Inc, New York City, NY keeping c/r N57573.

    30 December 1953

    To The Aetna Freight Lines, Pittsburg, PA keeping c/r N57573.

    21 September 1957

    To Naples Airlines, Naples, FL keeping c/r N57573.

    12 December 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N57573 (ELECTRA 10-A, 1052) issued.

    30 March 1959

    To The Aetna Freight Lines, Pittsburg, PA keeping c/r N57573.

    December 1961

    To Provincetown-Boston Airlines, Provincetown, MA keeping c/r N57573.

    20 February 1962

    To Robert R. Saxe keeping c/r N57573.

    11 March 1963

    To Carson Helicopters, Perkasie, PA keeping c/r N57573.

    5 July 1963

    To Skyway Airlines, Chicago, IL keeping c/r N57573.

    17 September 1979

    To Dolph Overton keeping c/r N57573.

    To Wings and Wheels Museum, Orlando, FL.
    View the Location Dossier

    25 April 1984

    To United Technologies Corporation, East Hartford, CT keeping c/r N57573.

    23 September 1988

    Loaned to New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: Northwest Airlines livery, NC14262

    15 February 2005

    To United Technologies Corporation, East Hartford, CT keeping c/r N57573.

    9 April 2008

    To New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT keeping c/r N57573.

    8 August 2010


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: Lockheed 10-A Electra (N57573) Tail view at the New England Air Museum

    1 January 2012

    Certificate of airworthiness for N57573 (ELECTRA 10-A, 1052) issued.

    1 February 2013

    Civil registration, N57573, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Windsor Locks, CT.

    10 October 2015


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed at the New England Air Museum at Bradley International Airport
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    Terry Fletcher
    Noah Rechtin
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