RON DUPAS COLLECTION
No. 253. Lockheed 18-56-23 C-60A Lodestar (N220B c/n 18-2273) Bechtel Corporation
Photographed at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, by Ron Dupas

Lockheed 18-56-23 C-60A Lodestar

01/22/2007. Remarks by Jack McKillop: "This aircraft was delivered to the USAAF on November 24, 1942 as a C-60A-1-LO. Transferred to the RFC for sale to the public and possibly exported to Mexico and registered XB-HOD. Registered N9990F in the US on May 17, 1951 and sold to the civil engineering company Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, California, on June 20, 1952 and reregistered N220B on August 26, 1952. It was reregistered N221B in January 1961 and N2218 in November 1965 and sold to a Canadian firm in March 1966 and registered CF-SYV. The CofA expired in May 1974 and it was sold to a New Jersey, USA company in March 1977 and registered N96334. It was seized by the FAA in April 1978 for airworthiness violations and released in 1980. It passed through several owners and is currently registered to a company in Virginia."


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