| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | F-ARTF |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Lockheed 18 Lodestar |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Lockheed 18 Lodestar |
| Aircraft Version: | Lockheed 18-07 Lodestar |
| C/n (msn): | 018-2006 |
| Operator Titles: | France - Air Force / Air France |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | Algiers - Houari BoumedieneMap |
| Country: | Algeria |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: DAAG IATA: ALG Local: - Other: - |
| Photo Date: | 28 February 1944 |
| Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
| Photo ID: | 871962 |
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Although this Lodestar survives in Finland, its early history is not easily found. Just before the fall of France in 1940, F-ARTF was delivered to French state company Air Afrique. In July 1940 it flew from Morocco to Dakar, carrying personnel of a Curtiss Hawk 75 squadron. Turned from Vichy to Free French, it is seen at Algiers - Maison Blanche in 1944. It wears Air France titles plus an illegible text above the cabin windows, and the Air France winged seahorse on the nose. To Aéro-Africaine after the war. To OH-VKU in 1953. Photo by: Robert Moisy / ECPAD This photo was added on 27 November 2025, and has since been viewed 78 times. |