Aircraft Photo of 44-83234 | Lockheed 14-WF62 Super Electra | USA - Air Force | AirHistory.net #220299
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:44-83234
Military Code:W34
Other Marks:VHCXJ
Aircraft Original Type:Lockheed 14 Super Electra
Aircraft Generic Type:Lockheed 14 Super Electra
Aircraft Version:Lockheed 14-WF62 Super Electra
C/n (msn):1442
Operator Titles:USA - Air Force
Location
City / Area:Adelaide-Prospect / Guilford Avenue [ Off-Airport, gone ]Map (unconfirmed)
Region / Country:South Australia, Australia
 
Photo Date:June 1966
Photo by:Geoff Goodall (via David Carter)
Photo ID: 220299
Photo Comment

Ex KNILM PK-AFP, ex USAAF aircraft that used the civil style callsign VHCXJ for operations during the South-West Pacific campaign of World War II. Flown by Adelaide-based Guinea Airways on behalf of the military. Postwar transported by road to the Adelaide suburb of Prospect to be converted to a caravan. By 1966 was being used as a garden shed. Attempts to recover it complete were thwarted by the owner's refusal to allow it to be hoisted by crane. Cut up and removed in sections, some of which ended up at the Warbirds Museum at Mildura.

This photo is copyright © Geoff Goodall, and may not be used or published in any way without permission.

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