• Aircraft:

  Lockheed C-60A Lodestar

• Reg: VH-XUS photos
• Serial #:

  18-2388

• Airline: Private
• Photo Date: Sep 30, 1992
• Uploaded: Mar 14, 2010
• Avalon Airport - YMAV, Australia

Rare close-cropped low res photo of Lockheed Lodestar C60A VH-XUS Cn 18-2388, while she was on static display at the Inaugural 1992 Avalon Airshow, in Victoria, Australia in October 1992. The ASTA Aircraft Services hangar is at rear. I also photographed this aircraft taxying at Canberra Airport, after I went on a 0.2 hour sight-seeing flight over (new) Parliament House Canberra on 13Mar1993 (when the aircraft was 50 years old). The aircraft was painted in USAAC livery, and the ‘Rooster’ Nose Art wording was 'Flew the Coop'. She was originally delivered to the USAAC as 42-55951 in 1943. (When Civil Registered, the aircraft was used as a ‘Flying Bordello’ by a ‘Chicken Ranch’ in USA.) I believe she went to the Wanaka Transport Museum in New Zealand around 1997. (Apologies for the 'Rivet Inspector' by the Stbd engine.)

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