Dates

Event

1937

Constructed as a L-10A.

6 October 1937

To Trans Canadian Airlines with new c/r CF-TCA.

From 23 October 1939 to 16 January 1946

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1526.

9 April 1946

To Thunder Bay Airlines in Fort William, ON with new c/r CF-BTD.

6 July 1946

To Siple Aircraft of Montreal keeping c/r CF-BTD.

1947

To Wisconsin Central Airways with new c/r NC79237.

1948

Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
Notes: At Chicago Municipal

1951

To Mid-Sky Company of Chicago, IL with new c/r N1285.
Operated with markings: Lady Alice

1952

Leased to Midway Airlines of Chicago.

1959

To Great Lakes Airmotive of Willow Run, MI keeping c/r N1285.

26 December 1961

Damaged.
In belly landing at Willow Run, sold as scrap.

Repaired.

6 September 1962

To Lee Koepke, Willow Run, Detroit, MI with new c/r N79237.

9 June 1967

Photographer: William T Larkins
Notes: Ann Pellegreno about to take off from Oakland Airport for her world flight, re-creating Amelia Earharts round-the-world flight route in a Lockheed Electra exactly 30 years earlier

7 July 1967

Photographer: William T Larkins
Notes: Ann Pellegreno arriving back at Oakland after circling the globe to recreate Earharts flight in a Lockheed 10

7 July 1967

Photographer: William T Larkins
Notes: Ann Pellegreno at Oakland Airport upon their return of the world flight on July 7, 1967. L to R: William Polhemus (navigator), Ann Pellegreno, Leo Koepke (aircraft owner and mechanic) and Colonel William Payne (copilot).

27 March 1968

Civil registration, N79237, cancelled.

April 1968

To Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe, Ottawa, ON.
Markings added: CF-TCA
Originally delivered to Trans-Canada airlines. Flew with RCAF as 1526. In1967 flown around the world on 30th anniversary Amelia Earhart flight by Ann Pellegreno. The last USA owner was Lee Koepke. In 1967 the aircraft was flown around the world By Ann Pellegreno to commemorate Amelia Earharts flight in 1937. The crew on this flight was: pilot Ann Pellegreno, owner Lee Koepke, co-pilot William Payne, navigator William Pohemus who was retired from Air Canada. Air Canada purchased the aircraft from Lee Koepke on March 11, 1968 and donated it to the National Aviation Museum in Ottawa.
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1994

Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photo taken at the National Aviation Museum.

15 September 2013

Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
Notes: 2013 photo at Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa-Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)

15 September 2013

Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
Notes: 2013 photo at Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa-Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)

11 December 2013

Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: This photo was taken at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.