Pacific Air Lines
Martin 4-0-4 N40422
(c/n 14128)
In
1960, Pacific purchased eight Martin 4-0-4s from TWA and two more from
Eastern in 1962.
N40422
was shot at LAX during a turnaround in the summer of 1961. Note
radar nose. They
were used on the
short haul San Joaquin Valley route from Los Angeles to San Jose and
Oakland.
This aircraft wound up
with IT charter outfit Fiesta Air (as N302FA) in 1971 and then went on
to
Kodiak Western
Alaska Airlines in 1976. It was withdrawn from use in the late
1970s.