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This information comes from the listings of Non-Prefixed and Non-Suffixed aircraft reviewed by me in the archives of the National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC.

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The definitive reference for early Lockheed aircraft is:

Allen, Richard S. 1988. Revolution in the Sky: The Lockheeds of Aviation's Golden Age. Orion Books, NY. 253 pp. Image, right, from page 118.

 
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LOCKHEED SIRIUS 8A NC167W

LOCKHEED SIRIUS 8A NC167W

A SPORT/ MAIL PLANE; THE LAST SIRIUS

This airplane is a Lockheed Sirius 8A (S/N 167; ATC #300) manufactured during July 1930 by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, CA.  It left the factory with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp C engine (S/N 3168) of 450 HP.  It was a two-place airplane, weighing 4,600 pounds.

Sirius NC167W

NC167W sold on August 9, 1930 to Wedell-Williams Air Service, Inc., Patterson, LA. We find the airplane landing at Tucson on August 11, 1930 flown by Marshall Headle carrying his wife as passenger (they had been married the previous January).  They were eastbound from Burbank, CA to El Paso, TX on what was undoubtedly the first leg of the ferry flight to Louisiana of this brand new Sirius. What with New Orleans being so close to Patterson, this might have been a fine, belated honeymoon for the Headles!

Wedell-Williams kept the airplane barely two years.  They sold it on March 5, 1932 to Lucille Trautwein Bottenfield, Dripping Springs, Austin, TX.  Over the next year it passed through four owners, until, on July 17, 1933 it was sold to Glen Harroun, c/o Bowen Air Lines, Fort Worth, TX.  Harroun had it converted on March 13, 1935 to a Sports Cabin Sirius Model 8C under ATC Gr. 2-374. It then transferred to Bowen Air Lines, Inc. on April 2, 1935.

NC167W was then apparently leased to the nascent Delta Air Lines, Inc., Atlanta, GA and used as a mail carrier on Delta’s Dallas-Charleston, SC route.  It suffered an accident at Birmingham, AL on December 24, 1935.  Pilot R.C. Reinhard received unidentified injuries and the airplane was “washed out”.

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