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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-14/15/18 / B-34 / C-56 C-60 / PV / R5O
    Latest Model:C-60A-5-LO Lodestar
    Last Military Serial:42-55993 USAAF
    Construction Number:2466
    Last Civil Registration:N81CG
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-60A-5-LO sn 42-55993 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aero Trader / Carl Scholl, Ocotillo Wells, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-60A-5-LO.

    28 May 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-55993.

    10 July 1943

    To Canadian Pacific Air Lines, AK with new c/r CF-CPF.
    Operated with markings: 264


    Photographer: Charles M.Daniels

    8 August 1950

    To unknown owner with c/r N5633N.

    To Brown Company with new c/r N31BG.

    To unknown owner with c/r N31L.

    To unknown owner with c/r N31LG.

    12 November 1971

    To Jack Ross Enterprises Inc, Mesa, AZ with new c/r N810G.

    To unknown owner.

    To unknown owner with c/r N81CG.

    By 1976

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Mesa, Arizona - and derelict by 1983.

    19 September 1977

    Civil registration, N810G, cancelled.

    Sold at auction on October 24, 1985 for US$1,000 with 13,380 hours on the airframe and was placed in storage at Ocotillo Wells, California, by December 1993.

    Based at Aero Trader/Carl Scholl, Ocotillo Wells, CA.
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