Hanford
Airlines Lockheed 10A Electra NC16050
(c/n 1061)
This poor image came from a Mid Continent Airlines house
organ
in 1947. Hanford changed its
name to Mid-Continent Airlines in August 1938 by which time it had
acquired a route network
stetching from Milwaukee to Minneapolis and through the Iowa cornfields
toWinnipeg in the north
and as
far south as Omaha and Kansas City. Its first modern
aircraft was the Lockheed Electra
which was replaced/augmented with the Lockheed Lodestar in 1939.