<<<<<< Yup, proud to have a piece of it hanging in my home.
RuudLeeuw wrote:
That must have been N43WT Lodestar c/n 18-2565; I have been struggling finding out its fate after someone sent me a 2004 pic.
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/guestphotos-44.htm (photo by Gerben Groothuis).
So it was cut up for art, eh? Quite like that!
thks
Ruud
Lockheed C-60 N43WT was destroyed by Hurricane Ike in 2008. The wings, entire tail surfaces, and engines had already been removed long before the hurricane. I was told the plan was for the new owner who had purchased the plane some time before Hurricane Ike struck, was to truck the fuselage to a new home about 100miles away, but the Hurricane destroyed it before that happened, and only the wings and other parts had already been trucked out. I bought the horribly beat up remains and later cut it up to make artwork pieces such as the subject of this thread. It was a sad ending for such a neat plane, but it lives on as artwork now in a lot of homes, offices and museums.
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Thanks Jason.