Lockheed 12A, c/n 1287, Electra Junior
This classic aircraft has recently been seen at the Paris Air Show in 2003 and 2005 and the Flying Legend Air Show weekends in 2004 and
2005.
Delivered to the Sky Kraft Corporation, Mobile, Alabama, on August 26, 1941, as NC33615, this "Grand Old Lady," will see her 65th birthday in 2006! Her next entry is dated December 31, 1941, and is shown at the Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, as an R3O-2, Bu.02947, with the remark, "Naval Attaché, London,
England."
The following day, a picture appeared on the front page of the "Aeroplane Spotter" in U.S. military marks! In August 1945, she was leased to the Royal Air Force as "D2947," but was soon registered on September 19, 1945, to Sydney Cotton, Director of the Aeronautical & Industrial Research Corporation, as G-AGTL, named "Caprice." In March 1946, she was shown at Hanworth, England, fitted with instrument flying aids, a Decca Navigator, MF H/F and VHF R/T, a SBA (Lorenz) receiver and a Bendix radio compass. Two additional 55-gallon fuselage fuel tanks increased the range to 1,250 miles. A series of development flights were made in an early attempt to provide safer instrument flying. A British CofA was granted in December
1946.
By May 1957, she was being flown for Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons and was sold to France in January 1961, but was not registered until March 15, 1963, as F-BJJY to Escadrille Mercure SARL. On April 28, 1964, she
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Lockheed 12A Electra Junior, c/n 1287
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