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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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LOCKHEED VEGA Model 5B NC892E

LOCKHEED VEGA Model 5B NC892E

EARLY DEMISE

This airplane is a Lockheed Vega Model 5B (S/N 74; ATC #93) manufactured during May 1929 by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, CA.  It left the factory with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp C engine (S/N 1472) of 425 HP.  It was a seven-place airplane.

It sold on June 10, 1929 to Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corporation, Detroit, MI.

NC892E arrived at Tucson on June 7, 1929 flown by Harry E. Smith.  He carried three passengers: Los Angelis Smith, Mrs. (Harold) Bromley, and her son.  They were eastbound from Los Angeles, CA to Detroit, MI on what was certainly the ferry flight of this brand new airplane from the factory to its new owners in Detroit.  Smith noted in the Remarks column of the Register, "Field & service excellent".  Note the arrival date at Tucson precedes the official sale date by three days.

Schlee-Brock notified the CAA on September 4, 1929 that the airplane was to be put on floats and sold to their subsidiary, Arrowhead International Airways, Ltd., Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, under export certificate E-232.  Neither the change to floats nor the export were carried out and the airplane remained with Schlee-Brock.

NC892E suffered an accident at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on May 14, 1930.  It is not clear if its pilot, Don H. Walker, survived (Walker signed the Davis-Monthan Register February 5, 1930 flying Vega NC194E).  The airplane was  reported “washed out” and its license and file were cancelled after the accident, barely a year after it was manufactured.

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