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Lockheed Vega Flies Again
A Lockheed Vega takes to the air for the first time in 30 years... (www.jrn.com) Plus d'info...
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Is this the only Vega in flying condition?
Currently, yes.
There are a couple more being restored.
There are a couple more being restored.
Thanks for sharing. Nice to see the old girl back where she belongs.
I love it when an old bird gets another chance to fly. Well done to those involved in her restoration.
I remember Amelia, but Wiley Post flew it too. As this one is painted in U.S.Army colors, I wonder of it's history. Bless you for this labor of love.
C/N161 was delivered in Mar. 1933.
It went through a host of owners starting with John Morrell & Co., Iowa, Braniff Airways, Oklahoma City, OK, Lloyd Earl, Fort Worth, TX., Fort Const. Co. Texas, Texas & Northern Airways, Sioux City Iowa, Whitehorse Div. used as a pers. transport during the ALCAN Hwy, Northern Air Service, Fairbanks, AK, Northern Consolidated Airlines, Fairbanks, AK, Marvin Greenlee, AK & CA, Mint Aviation, ?, Jack Lowe & Robt. L. Taylor, Iowa, Tom A. Thomas, Mid America Air Group, Ohio, then on to ?
I guess the current owner.
(Info from Revolution in the Sky, Richard Sanders Allen, Orion Books, 1988)
It went through a host of owners starting with John Morrell & Co., Iowa, Braniff Airways, Oklahoma City, OK, Lloyd Earl, Fort Worth, TX., Fort Const. Co. Texas, Texas & Northern Airways, Sioux City Iowa, Whitehorse Div. used as a pers. transport during the ALCAN Hwy, Northern Air Service, Fairbanks, AK, Northern Consolidated Airlines, Fairbanks, AK, Marvin Greenlee, AK & CA, Mint Aviation, ?, Jack Lowe & Robt. L. Taylor, Iowa, Tom A. Thomas, Mid America Air Group, Ohio, then on to ?
I guess the current owner.
(Info from Revolution in the Sky, Richard Sanders Allen, Orion Books, 1988)
I really don't know what Jerry Rader is referring to here. Perhaps if he had done a supcon of research before yawping he would have learned that my Vega was built with a metal fuselage. Like my mother said, "there will always be someone there to point out how you could have done it better."
