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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:L-188A Electra
    Construction Number:1012
    Last Civil Registration:N5507
    Compressed ID:Lockheed L-188A cn 1012 cr N5507
    Latest Owner or Location:Turboprop Ventures Llc Anaheim CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a L-188A.

    14 November 1958

    To Eastern Air Lines with new c/r N5507.

    1959


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: Chicago Midway Airport - Eastern Air Lines - Lockheed Electra (L188)

    3 January 1959

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5507 (188A, 188A-1012) issued.

    1970

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Ft.Lauderdale, Miami.

    January 1978

    To Zantop International Airlines keeping c/r N5507.
    Markings added: 507

    1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: By the late 1970s Electras had become popular as efficient freighters which could avoid airport jet noise curfews. N5507 was one of Zantop Internationals large Electra fleet.

    Circa September 1993


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Detroit, Willow Run

    Based at Detroit Willow Run Airport (YIP), Ypsilanti, MI.
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    1 January 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for N5507 (188A, 188A-1012) issued.

    7 September 2006

    To Turboprop Ventures Llc Anaheim CA keeping c/r N5507.

    9 December 2009

    To unknown owner with c/r N5507.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Crofton, MD.

    23 August 2013

    Civil registration, N5507, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Crofton, MD.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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