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The Lockheed Electra 10 airliner, which could carry ten passengers, first flew on February 23, 1934. Eight Electra 10Cs were produced and this photo shows one with registration number X14257, which was later changed to NC14257. |
The Lockheed 12-A Electra Junior was a smaller version of the Lockheed Electra 10 airliner that was designed to carry six passengers, instead of ten. It was first flown on June 27, 1936, about two years after the first flight of the Electra 10, and 130 of them were built. Many Lockheed 12-As were also used the military services of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Argentina, Cuba, and the Netherlands East Indes. This photo shows a Lockeed 12-A, with registration number NC17342, which was, at one point, owned by Lang Transportation and was used in the 1937 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Rosalie. |
The Martin 2-0-2, which could carry 40 passengers, in an unpressurized cabin, first flew on November 22, 1946 and entered commercial service in October 1947. An improved version of the aircraft, the Martin 3-0-3, which had a pressurized cabin, was later flown on June 20, 1947, but as it shared the poor wing structure of the earlier model, which had caused one crash, during a storm, of a Northwest Orient Airlines Martin 2-0-2, on August 29, 1948, it was not put into production. A modified version of the Martin 2-0-2 was built, however, which was designated the 2-0-2A and twelve of these were produced for TWA. A prototype 2-0-2 was also converted to a 2-0-2A, which was later modified as the first Martin 4-0-4 Martin-Liner, which had a pressurized cabin, but only TWA, Eastern, and the United States Coast Guard placed orders for it, so that only 103 were built. The Martin 2-0-2 was used by several airlines, besides Northwest Orient, including TWA and Eastern, each of which bought 50 of the aircraft, and Pioneer, Colonial, Pennsylvania Central, and California Central. Several other airlines, such as Allegheny and Southwest, bought Martin 2-0-2s from their original owners and some of these were later used for cargo, during the 1980s. This photo shows a prototype Martin 2-0-2 airliner. |
ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION 29 AUG 1948
