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Does anyone know if there are any remaining Lockheed Loadstars left in Quebec, I have heard of 3,one in St Cyhrosome. and one on route 125 and a wreck 100 miles nw of lab city, near an old pinetree line site.

The Lodestar near my airport is long gone, and there is nothing left at St-Jean-de-Chrisostome.

No idea where they went, probably the scraper, as there was nothing you could do with them.

The one I saw quite often had a big portion of its fuselage cut open to do a snack bar...

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

This is a photo of the roadside Lockheed, north of Montreal, taken back in the late 80s. I also have a photo I took of it in the late 70s. I was also wondering if it was still there. It was a drive in restaurant at one time, like a Chip Truck.



Eric

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Hey Ollie, that would be this one You beat me by one minute.

Eric

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

Read my post Eric, it's gone!

Since this Spring...

I usually took it as a target for C-FWOL, I would fly over head and drop a pair of "500 lbs" bombs on it!

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

Hey Ollie,

was there not a glider port up the road from the Lockheed? It has been so long since I was there I can't remember where it was. I think I passed it on the way back from Rawden one time and on the way back from Mirable once.

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

Yes, there was a glider club which is now in Bromont. Chief pilot and chief mechanic is my friend.

Small airport is still there!

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

Thats one of the ones I was thinking about, i did a search on the internet and found pic,s of one in huntingdon ,it was there this summer Thanks Guys ps. Does anyone have a contact name for the guy that was working on the lodestar at the Yankee Airforce Museum I meet him about 7 years ago but can,t find his card?

If that is the one I am thinking about, CF-CRL or CF-CRK (can't remember), there wasn't much left of it after the crash. My comments are based on pics I saw on the web recently when I did some googling. It looked like on pieces of the tail survived with wreckage well spread in a densely wooded area.

Regards,

Mike

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Iam not sure about that the guy I was talking to about it said it was intact, and nearer to lad city that one your talking about is much further west.

Hi all--

This crops up now and then. I remember a lively discussion on the old WIX about the valuation of PV-1s and PV-2s compared to other wartime medium bombers; now we see pix of a C-60 in Quebec that sadly became "disposable" because nobody wanted it...(in the old days of course it might have been trucked to Newbury OH aboard an antique school bus!).

Question would be, why is it that certain types or families of aircraft, with which there is nothing wrong, lose out in the popularity stakes? For the record, I've long thought the WWII-era Lockheed twins were among the best-looking midsize machines of the period; long nose, big radials, striking wing planform and swoopy lines. (If I'd a place to put it...I'd have taken that Quebec one myself just to save it.) Just curious; what do some of the WIXers think? (And how about a C-60 as WIX's airshow bus?)

S.

I'm with you on the Lockheed twins. I even created a page of images that my father has taken over the years of the beautiful twins.

http://www.airic.ca/html/lockheed_twins.html



I'm out of here and off to see the Halifax move.

Eric

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

Yes, Eric they are over looked and all clumped tpgether as the same type, I just saw an article about the gander museum, and they stated that its a lodestar, but called Hudson in Canadian service,it would have been cool to mate the lodestar parts with the Hudson fuselage that at ACAM.

Lodestars as resturants?
Hmmm, and I thought they only put those on Mini Golf courses!
If I remember right theres one in Myrtle Beach on top of the 9th hole

Hey Rob, What ever became of the one that a few members of the Escadrille had up in Manchester, It was a former exec airplane with low time, blue and White and a short tail number. and was that the same airplane that was cocooned in tarps for storage and the tarps ended up protecting all the Mice that mooved in throught the tail?

Sorry, It got me thinking again

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I have to agree with you guys, the Lockheeds have really not gotten their correct place in line, seems that the twin-Beech 18 gets more respect. Here is a nice William T. Larkins picture from our site: and you can see a couple more at: http://www.norcalaahs.org/larkins12.htm