Aircraft Photo of NC2875 | Lockheed 5D Vega | Hanford Airlines | AirHistory.net #380681
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:NC2875
Fleet number:21
Aircraft Original Type:Lockheed 2/5/DL Vega
Aircraft Generic Type:Lockheed 2/5/DL Vega
Aircraft Version:Lockheed 5D Vega
C/n (msn):60
Operator Titles:Hanford Airlines
Location
Location:Not known
Region / Country:Unknown State, United States
 
Photo Date:July 1936 to December 1938
Photo from:Peter de Jong Collection
Photo ID: 380681
Photo Comment

Built in 1929 as a Vega 2. To Canadian-American Airlines for use on Minneapolis to Winnipeg route. Sold to Hanford Tri-State Airline in 1931, which became Hanford Airlines in 1936 and Mid-Continent Airlines in 1938. Air mail route 26 was Kansas City to Minneapolis. The Vega ended up with Lineas Aereas Mineras, registered XA-DEC. Last seen derelict on a beach near Ensenada, Mexico in the late 1940s.

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