Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-188A Electra (N5517) History in less than 5 Minutes (03:01)
Welcome to the Nova Airmada channel hello to my future subscribers and my loyal subscribers. Today’s aircraft is the Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-188A Electra, with this aircraft wearing Eastern Airlines 1970’s White Hockey Stick livery. Please watch to the end to see this aircraft’s full history.
This Lockheed Electra was initially delivered to Eastern Airlines from the Lockheed factory in Burbank, California, on January 18, 1959. Powered by four Allison 501 series turboprops, producing up to 3,750 shp or 2,800 kw at full power, each. At this point in this airliner’s history, the aircraft was painted in Eastern Airlines 1950’s era Golden Falcon livery. While flying for Eastern Airlines, this Lockheed Electra’s Passenger loads could be as high as 98 passengers. As a Cargo aircraft, this aircraft could carry 33,800 lb or 15, 300 kg of payload. At this time the aircraft was registered as N5517.
Zantop International Airlines took possession of this aircraft, after it’s cargo conversion in July of 1978. The aircraft retained the same registration, but was repainted in Zantop’s simple livery of a red cheatline on the fuselage and on the vertical stabilizer, along with Zantop titles above the fuselage cheatline. While with Zantop International Airlines, the aircraft and it’s Lockheed Electra siblings were delivering cargo from the Willow Run Airport near Detroit Michigan all across North America and to locations outside of North America.
However, fate would have this aircraft suffer an ignoble end. In 1993, the aircraft, while sitting on the tarmac, in between cargo flights caught fire in the cockpit. With no casualties or injuries, the fire was put out, but the aircraft was considered a total loss. After this the aircraft was broken up for scrap at Willow Run Airport.
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