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The Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar is a passenger transport aircraft of the World War II era, developed as part of the Model 10 Electra family; developed from the Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra .
The Coast Guard acquired a Lockheed Model 18 (R5O-1), Lockheed registration number 2008, and it was delivered and accepted on 14 May 1940. It was used as an executive transport aircraft.
Lockheed Model 18 (R5O-5) Lodestar. The Model 18 is a slightly enlarged Model 14 Super Electra designed to compete with the Douglas DC-3. While the Lodestar was relatively successful in airline service it never quite met the expectation placed on it.
21 de sept. de 2022 · With its origins dating back to World War Two, the Lockheed Model 18 loadstar was an 18-passenger twin-engine airliner based on the Lockheed 14 Super Electra. During the late 1930s, Lockheed's Model 14 Super Electra sales were not what the California aircraft manufacturer had envisioned.
The Lockheed R5O was the US Navys designation for the Model 18 Lodestar transport, of which nearly 100 were used during the Second World War.
In tests to determine the practicality of operating twin-engine and tricycle landing gear aircraft from carriers, on 29 August 1939, Lieutenant Commander Thruston B. Clark made 11 landings and takeoffs with the XJO-3 on board the carrier Lexington (CV-2) steaming off the California coast.
The modified aircraft first flew in this form on September 21, 1939, with another two prototypes being converted from Model 14s, and the first Model 18 built from new flying on February 2, 1940. [4] A total of 625 Lodestars of all variants were built. Operational history.
