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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:42-56055 USAAF
    Construction Number:18-2548
    Last Civil Registration:N339 {2}
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-60A-5-LO sn 42-56055 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Jim Beyer

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    Dates

    Event

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

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-56055.

    To Great Lakes Steel Corp with new c/r N14922.

    22 March 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N14922 (18-56, 2548) issued.

    4 November 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Ex C-60A Lodestar 42-56055 seen at Tampa, Florida in November 1979.

    August 1988


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.

    By 1991

    To unknown owner with c/r N339 {2}.

    1991


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    1991


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.

    10 July 1996

    To May Air Xpress Inc, New Boston, TX keeping c/r N339 {2}.

    Based at Texarkana Municipal Airport (TXK), Texarkana, AR.
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    10 July 2011

    Transported by ground.
    Moved to Hot Springs, Montana.

    To Jim Beyer.

    13 May 2015

    Civil registration, N339 {2}, cancelled.
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