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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-14/15/18 / B-34 / C-56 C-60 / PV / R5O
    Latest Model:C-66 Lodestar
    Last Military Serial:AX756 RAF
    Construction Number:18-2020
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-BVE
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-66 sn AX756 RAF cn 18-20...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT 2), Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield, Auckland, Auckland, North Island

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a L-18-08.

    October 1940

    To United Air Lines with new c/r NC25630.
    Operated with markings: City of Fresno
    Operating the Los Angeles - San Francisco Service.

    May 1941

    Aircraft impressed by US Government for transfer to RAF / BOAC.

    May 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-53504.

    September 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n AX756.

    Converted to a C-66.
    Modified and delivered dis-assembled to CapeT Town, South Africa for use by BOAC.

    From 29 September 1941 to 19 November 1947

    To British Overseas Airways Corporation with new c/r G-AGCN (LOCKHEED 18-56, 2020).
    Operated with markings: Lake Victoria
    Based at Cairo, Egypt.

    Aircraft returned to RAF Maintenance Units in Great Bitter Lakes, west of Cairo, Egypt.

    From 1948 to 1950

    To Compania Auxiliar de Navigacion Aerea (CANA).

    From 1950 to 1954

    To Ejercito del Aire.

    1954

    To Minnesota Airmotive Inc with new c/r N9933F.

    25 January 1955

    To Minnesota Airmotive Inc, Minneapolis, MN with new c/r N9933F (18-56, 2020).

    1957

    Aircraft ferried to Bankstown, Sydney where the Fairey Aviation Co converted the aircraft for a top dressing role.

    24 March 1958

    Civil registration, N9933F, cancelled.

    July 1958

    To Fieldair with new c/r ZK-BVE.

    12 June 1960


    Photographer: Graeme Mills - Don Noble
    Notes: At Wanganui

    1961

    To Airland (NZ) Ltd keeping c/r ZK-BVE.
    Fieldair, James Aviation, and Rural Aviation combined their fleets of Lodestars and DC-3s, to form Airland (NZ) Ltd., with the central engineering base being at Palmerston North.

    9 January 1967


    Photographer: Graeme Mills - Don Noble
    Notes: At Gisborne, NZ

    30 March 1968


    Photographer: Graeme Mills - Don Noble
    Notes: At Gisborne NZ

    December 1969

    Involved in an incident.
    Wheels up landing following the loss of hydraulic pressure at Palmerston North.

    January 1970

    Civil registration, ZK-BVE, cancelled.

    1971

    To Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT 2), Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield, Auckland, Auckland, North Island.
    View the Location Dossier

    1986


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1986 photo at MOTAT in New Zealand
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