Pan American Airways Lockheed 10E Electra
NC30077
(c/n 1133)
Pan American ordered some fourteen
Lockheed Electras in 1933, most of which were
consigned to CMA in Mexico. Cubana in Cuba had three
and two, NC30077 and
NC30078
went to Pacific Alaska Airways. This rare shot, from the
Mike Sparkman
collection shows
a L-10E in 'pure' Pan American Airways System livery. It
would
appear to have
been taken at Burbank before being relegated to the Alaska Division.
Both Pacific Alaska
machines moved on to SACO in Columbia in 1939 becoming C-10
and
C-11 (later C-110 and C-111)
respectively. C/n 1133 later went
to TACA in
Nicaragua (as AN-ABW) and then to Honduras as XH-TAB. It was
written off in
October 1946.