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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-9 / C-85 Orion / DL-2
    Latest Model:DL-2A Altair
    Construction Number:180
    Last Civil Registration:N12222
    Compressed ID:Lockheed DL-2A cn 180 cr N12222
    Latest Owner or Location:Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Swiss Transport Museum), Verkehrshaus, Lucerne, Luzern

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DL-2A.

    To Transcontinental Western Air with new c/r N12222.

    Circa 1932

    To Shell Aviation Corporation keeping c/r N12222.

    1932


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Municipal Airport

    Circa 1934


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels

    1939


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: Paul Mantzs Lockheed Orion 9C at San Francisco Bay Airdrome, Alameda, CA in 1939.

    To A. Paul Mantz keeping c/r N12222.


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels
    Notes: At Cleveland


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection
    Notes: Paul Mantz, R-1829, No. 23, 1938 and 1939 Bendix Air Races

    To M. R. Peck keeping c/r N12222.

    To Barnsdall Oil Co keeping c/r N12222.

    To H. J. Kenley/General Aerial Surveys keeping c/r N12222.

    To J. C. Eaton keeping c/r N12222.

    To H. S. Roller keeping c/r N12222.

    To A. Paul Mantz keeping c/r N12222.


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection

    5 July 1962

    To Tallmantz Aviation Inc keeping c/r N12222.

    27 August 1976

    Civil registration, N12222, cancelled.

    To Rosen-Novak Auto Corp.

    To D. Johnson.

    To Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Swiss Transport Museum), Verkehrshaus, Lucerne, Luzern.
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    Markings Applied: CH-167

    2008


    Photographer: Andy West
    Notes: Lockheed 9C Orion (DL-2A Altair), airframe serial no. 180 (N12222)
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Golden Years of Aviation
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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