Just aquired L-18

Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:57 am

Neat find. By the looks of the instrument panel it looks like someone has been giving the old girl some attention.

Related. I've seen one of these lockheeds sitting in Xenia, Ohio in about the same condition as this one. Although I beleive it is the civilian variant (who knows?). It's on the property of a Skydiving outfit. Beautiful lines.

Keep us posted, love this stuff.

Shay
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Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:34 am

Ryan.....Me says...duhhhh

Shay....pics of the Xenia Lockheed please!!! Out east of Xenia...toward Wash. Ct House, but west of the I-75...there is a Beech 18 at a private strip....know anything about it?

Will keep ya informed!

Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:51 am

RyanShort1 wrote:You said that's an L-18?
That's got to be the biggest L-bird ever! How did I miss something that big?

Ryan

.....all sizes and shapes

Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:52 am

Congrats Gary. And yes, you're crazy. :lol:

Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:00 pm

Shay....pics of the Xenia Lockheed please!!! Out east of Xenia...toward Wash. Ct House, but west of the I-75...there is a Beech 18 at a private strip....know anything about it?

Err....I think you mean west of I-71 :wink:

Sorry, don't have any pictures of the old girl but I wouldn't mind head'n out there Saturday to take some pictures.

Can't say I've specifically seen a Beech 18 out that way but iirc that same skydiving outfit has a C-45 in their inventory.

Shay
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Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:20 pm

Shay,

Interesting. I have a rather vague memory of a couple of derelict Beech 18s and a Lockheed at Red Stewart Field may years ago...late 80s. Sadly I never took any pics, and the older I got the more I doubted my memory of a Lockheed in Southern Ohio. But now you mention one up the road in Xenia, so maybe I wasn't crazy.

I hope you can get some pics to post in the near future.

Jim

Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:56 pm

Good job Gary! You're going to have to get a bigger yard!

PJ
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Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:11 pm

Shay....I knew that it was west of I-71...was just checking to see if you are really from the Buckeye

Django.....Thanks for the confirmation...I feel the love

PJ.....Two acres=Two Lockheeds.....Plenty of grazing....nice oak and walnut shade trees....clear water creek close by....The Feds will never notice the boilers and copper tube...they'll be too busy lookin' at the planes!

Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:46 am

Just to follow up with this thread. I did make it out to the airfield but it was not a Lockheed and was infact a Beech,....a couple of them.

I started a new thread to keep from sidetracking Gary's.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=32963&sid=ae97bb06feb2439fbcb72ffb3f99ffb6

Anymore pics of your new bird Gary?

Shay
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Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:11 am

Shay, did you find what their plan is for those Beech's???

Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:23 am

N3Njeff wrote:Shay, did you find what their plan is for those Beech's???

Pimp them?

Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:16 am

this one ?:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=22289&key=0

Martin

Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:30 pm

Since I promised pictures on a Lockheed and came up short, i submit these instead.

Shay
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Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:12 pm

Nice save Shay!.....Hope to get more pics this coming weekend..
Gary

Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:36 pm

Shay wrote:Since I promised pictures on a Lockheed and came up short, i submit these instead.

Shay
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(just to fill the time while Gary gets back to us with more Adventures in Lockheedness!!)

For all those "Twin Tailed" Lockheed savvy types on this board. Any idea as to what type of Lockheed it is? I think I make out windows on the belly. I imagine the the moment being caught on film is that of some senior French miltary or dignitary person arriving or departing.

Any ideas??

Shay
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Just aquired L-18

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