ZK-ANB Lockheed
18-56 Lodestar
(c/n 2383)
This machine was built as a C-60A for the
USAAC with serial number 42-55946. It went to
the
RNZAF as NZ5309 and was sold to Union Airways in 1946. My shot
shows it with NZNAC,
circa
1950, named "Karuwai". Like most of NZNAC's Lodestars ZK-ANB was
repatriated back
to the US
in the early 1950s. This one became N4640V. It went to
Canada as CF-IAX with Gulf
Radair and
then went to Lear's at Santa Monica in 1958 to be converted into a
Learstar, returning to
Canada as
CF-BAL for the British-American Oil Company. It was reported to
be active in Canada
as late as
1990.