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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-14/15/18 / B-34 / C-56 C-60 / PV / R5O
    Latest Model:C-56C Lodestar
    Last Military Serial:42-68690 USAAF
    Construction Number:18-2002
    Last Civil Registration:N141C
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-56C sn 42-68690 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aero Trader / Carl Scholl, Ocotillo Wells, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a L-18-07.

    1 May 1940

    To Mid Continental Airlines with new c/r NC25601.

    17 July 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-68690 as a C-56C.

    1948

    To Capital Equipment Company with new c/r NC25601.

    June 1952


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: Taxi shot at Oakland in June 1952

    12 September 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX141C (18, 2002) issued.

    By 1970

    To Vistas Unlimited with new c/r N141C.

    17 September 1974

    To Sky Aircraft Sales Inc, Flagstaff, AZ keeping c/r N141C.

    1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Alongside the tangled Lodestars was a third, N141C with Vistas Unlimited titles and Howard Aero wing and nose mods.

    October 1985

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    30 June 2009

    Civil registration, N141C, cancelled.
    Cancelled.

    1 January 2012

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX141C (18, 2002) issued.

    Based at Aero Trader/Carl Scholl, Ocotillo Wells, CA.
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