Wisconsin Central
Airlines Lockheed 10-A Electra
N17375 (c/n 1096)
Wisconsin Central Airlines was
incorporated in 1944 but did not commence scheduled services until
February
of 1948. It was originally a division of the Four Wheel
Drive Company of Clintonville,
Wisconsin. The new airline had been awarded Air Mail Route 86
covering some 43
stations within
Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. To service
this network a small fleet of six
Lockheed 10-As was
acquired.
N17375 had originally been delivered
to Hanford Airlines back in
1937. The above image
is from
the Leo J. Kohn
collection and was taken at General Mitchell Field,
Milwaukee in 1949.