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BURNED AIRLINER
This airplane is a Lockheed Vega 5 (S/N 53;
ATC# 93) manufactured early in 1929 by the Lockheed Aircraft
Corporation, Burbank,
CA. I came from the factory with a Pratt & Whitney
Wasp engine (S/N 1186). It was a six-place airplane.
I was purchased on April 24, 1929 by Erle P. Halliburton
of Tulsa, OK, and transferred to his company's name, Southwest
Air Fast Express (SAFEway Airlines), Tulsa, OK on May 21,
1929. Over the next six years, it was transferred another
six times, all to airline companies. Below (image from R.S.
Allen, page 130) is NC624E circa 3/31-10/33 when it was owned
by Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., New York, NY.
Another image is available here.
NC624E came to Tucson one time piloted by Bob
Cantwell. He was solo and eastbound from Los
Angeles to
Tulsa, OK. I have no further information on this airplane, or its
flight to Tucson.
It was destroyed in a hangar fire at Sioux City, IA on January
20, 1937.
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UPLOADED: 03/17/06 REVISED: 04/11/06, 04/19/06
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