CF-CPA Lockheed
18-50 Lodestar
(c/n 2177)
This interesting
shot shows CF-CPA in wartime, pseudo camouflage livery, flying over some
territory in which an
emergency landing area might be tough to discern.. This
Lodestar was one
of those
slated to join the Dutch East Indies Air Force in Java in 1940 where it
was to have been
serialed LT-926. In
the event, when the Japanese overran that island
this machine was diverted
(seized, might be a better term) by the US
Government to the Army Air
Corps as a C-60-LO,
with
serial 42-108787. However, it would appear that it was released
to
CPAL sometime during
WW II.