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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-14/15/18 / B-34 / C-56 C-60 / PV / R5O
    Latest Model:R5O-1 Lodestar
    Last Military Serial:AX763 RAF
    Construction Number:18-2023
    Last Civil Registration:G-AGCZ
    Compressed ID:Lockheed R5O-1 sn AX763 RAF cn 18-2...
    Latest Owner or Location:British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-18-08.

    21 August 1940

    To United Air Lines with new c/r NC25633.
    Operated with markings: City of Alameda


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: Taking off from Monterey, California

    Converted to a L-18-08.

    17 October 1940

    To U S Treasury Department/Procurement Div with new c/r N25633 (18-08, 2023).

    February 1941


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: United Air Lines - City of Alameda - landing at Oakland in February 1941.

    May 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-53607.

    8 May 1941

    Civil registration, N25633, cancelled.

    Appeared in the movie - Emergency Landing.

    8 May 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-53507.

    25 July 1941

    It was transferred to the Royal Air Force under Lend-Lease and flown to Accra, Gold Coast in West Africa by Pan American Air Ferries.

    5 August 1941

    Civil registration, N25633, cancelled.

    25 September 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n AX763.

    Redesignated as R5O-1.

    29 September 1941

    To British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with new c/r G-AGCZ.
    Operated with markings: Lake Stephanie
    Based in Cairo, Egypt.

    22 December 1941

    Destroyed in a crash.
    This aircraft crashed on landing near Tobruk, Libya, on December 22, 1941.
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