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| To United States Army Air Force as C-60A 43-16453 | |
| 15NOV43 | Delivered ex Lockheed. (Source: MAC Air Case 200. NAA via Gordon Birkett) |
| 15NOV43 | Arrived Long Beach. (Source: MAC Air Case 200. NAA via Gordon Birkett) |
| 04JAN44 | Departed Long Beach. (Source: MAC Air Case 200. NAA via Gordon Birkett) |
| 11JAN44 | To RAAF as A67-10 |
| Issued to 37 Sqn RAAF | |
| Allocated callsign VHRAJ | |
| 19MAR47 | Sold to Dept of Civil Aviation. |
| 26SEP47 | Struck off by RAAF |
| OCT47 | Trucked from Tocumwal to Parafield in convoy with A67-2 and A67-8 for overhaul by the Dept of Aircraft Production |
| 29SEP49 | Test flown (presumably at Parafield). (Source: Log Book of the starboard engine fitted to VH-CAB) |
| 11OCT49 | Registered to Dept of Civil Aviation as VH-CAB |
| 13OCT49 | Flown for 2 hours 15 minutes. (Source: Log Book of the starboard engine fitted to VH-CAB) This could represent entry into DCA service. |
| 21FEB50 | Flown for 4 hours 15 minutes. (Source: Log Book of the starboard engine fitted to VH-CAB) This could represent the last service with DCA. |
| 24FEB50 | No.1 service carried out by TAA at Essendon. (Source: Log Book of the starboard engine fitted to VH-CAB) |
| 10OCT50 | Withdrawn from use by DCA at Essendon |
| 22FEB52 | Sold to TAA. (This date is confirmed by an entry in the Log Book of the starboard engine fitted to VH-CAB) |
| 26FEB52 | Registered to TAA as VH-TAY and named "Lindsay". (The log book of the starboard engine fitted to VH-TAY shows the date for change of registration as 28MAR52) |
| 26/27MAR52 | Flown for 6 hours 10 minutes. (Source: Log Book of the starboard engine fitted to VH-TAY) |
| 24JUN52 | Test flown at Essendon and later the same day ferried to Brisbane |
| 25JUN52 | Training at Brisbane. (Source: Log book of Capt R.R. Hickey via Gordon Reid) |
| 03JUL52 | Ferried from Brisbane to Cairns. (Source: Log Book of the starboard engine fitted to VH-TAY) |
| 04JUL52 | Entered service with TAA based at Cairns. (Earlier stated to be 02JUL52 but the starboard engine log suggests 04JUL52.) Used mainly on services between Cairns and Townsville. The aircraft flew every day from 04JUL52 to 17AUG53 inclusive. Thereafter, the schedule was every day except Monday and Thursday although there were numerous variations. (Source: Log Book of the starboard engine fitted to VH-TAY) The normal pattern was for the same crew to fly the Lodestar from Cairns to Townsville then the DC-3 through to Brisbane via ports. Next day, the same crew would operate the DC-3 from Brisbane to Townsville and then the Lodestar to Cairns. (Source: Log book of Capt R.R. Hickey via Gordon Reid) |
| 31MAY53 | Flown for 2 hours 10 minutes. (Source: Log Book of the starboard engine fitted to VH-TAY) This may represent the last service for VH-TAY before being ferried to Brisbane for sale. |
| 01JUN53 | Flown for 4 hours 40 minutes. The starboard engine was removed at Brisbane. (Source: Log book for the starboard engine) This may represent the ferry flight from Cairns to Brisbane after withdrawal from TAA service. |
| 53 | Sold to B.W. Cowan of Aeroquipment of Australia |
| 14JUL53 | Registered to Earl Bacon of Santa Monica as N5080V |
| AUG53 | Departed Brisbane en route to Los Angeles |
| 10AUG53 | Registered to Lear Corporation as N5080V |
| 25APR55 | Registered to Learcraft Conversions of Santa Monica as N24W and converted to Learstar executive configuration |
| 24MAY55 | Sold to C.B. Wrightsman of Palm Beach, Florida |
| 15SEP58 | Sold to the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp of Shreveport, Louisiana as N179T |
| 13SEP66 | Sold to Omni Investment Corp of Washington, DC |
| 19SEP66 | Sold to Founders Investment of Albuquerque, New Mexico as N179T |
| 22SEP66 | Sold to Westernair of Albuquerque as N179T |
| 27SEP66 | Returned to Founders Investment |
| 09JAN67 | Sold to Aerodyne Engineering Corp of Dallas, Texas as N179T |
| 03MAR67 | Sold to Atlantic Richfield of Philadelphia as N298AR |
| 14APR69 | Sold to Aero-Cruse Inc of Dallas and sold same day to the White Shield Oil and Gas Corp of Tulsa, Oklahoma as N14WS |
| 08OCT70 | Sold to the Jean Everest Rental Company of Oklahoma City and later entered service with McKellar Aviation |
| 09OCT73 | Sold to the Business Travel Corp of Lakeland, Florida as N14WS |
| 25MAR76 | Sold to Kane Engineering of Bridgeton, Missouri |
| FEB77 | Sold to Marvin Zylstra of Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| 01APR77 | Sold to Auto Marine Sales Corp of Fort Lauderdale |
| 05MAR80 | Sold to Summit Quarries Inc of Summit Station, Pennsylvania as N14WS |
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Summary of flights from September 1949 to June 1953. |
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Calendar showing flights ex Cairns from July 1952 to May 1953. |
| Issue | Date | Remarks |
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| 6 | 24JUN06 |
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delivery details thanks to Gordon Birkett.
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| 5 | 05FEB06 |
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considerable detail drawn from the log book of Wright Cyclone s/n 94157
which was fitted in the starboard position of this aircraft from 11NOV48
to 01JUN53. Also added detail from the log book of TAA Captain R.R.
Hickey received via Gordon Reid.
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| 4 | 07NOV04 |
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an image of N5080V. The source of this photo is unknown so if anyone
recognises it please advise the Webmaster.
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| 3 | 13FEB04 |
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an image of A67-10 thanks to Phil Vabre of the CAHS.
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