Canadian Museum of Flight

Tag: Lockheed Lodestar

  • Lockheed Lodestar 18-08 CF-TCY

    An icon of Canadian Aviation History is being preserved by the Canadian Museum of Flight at the Langley Airport, in partnership with the University College of the Fraser Valley at Abbotsford. Together they have undertaken to refurbish and preserve a former Trans-Canada Airlines Lockheed Lodestar aircraft. This aircraft CF-TCY is of significant cultural and historic…

  • Lockheed Lodestar

    Lockheed Lodestar

    Lockheed 18-08 Lodestar First flown in 1939, the Model 18 was originally designed as a successor to the Lockheed Model 14 and the earlier Model 10 Electra. Most US airlines were by then committed to purchasing the Douglas DC-3, and Lockheed found the Lodestar difficult to sell at home. However, several overseas airlines from South…