Florida Airlines' Martin 404 N259S photographed at Lakeland wearing Air Florida Commuter livery parked out of use and stored, along with sister ships N144S and N145S.

One of a trio of immaculate Martins parked at SIA's base of Bartow Municipal, Florida.

Photographer: Donnie Head.

In reality this is N259S, which was originally delvered to Eastern Air Lines in November 1952, but is now painted to represent the 4-0-4 prototype.

Former Systems International Airways aircraft.

Looking a little bit faded after being on display for about 10 years at the Glenn L. Martin Museum.

Two Martin 404's of Shawnee at their FLL hub. N259S at right was delivered new to Eastern in November 1952 and served Shawnee from February 1976 until later that year.

N259S is on display at the museum and was recently repainted in Martin prototype colors with fake registration N40400. The real N40400 started life as NX93002 (c/n 9123), one of two M202 prototypes, and was first flown on 27 Jan 1947. It was later converted to M202A prototype, and in 1950 the fuselage was stretched and it became the unpressurized M404 prototype. As such it made its first flight on 21 Oct 1950, now registered N40400. It was sold to Piedmont for parts following a ground incident, and broken up in 1965.

Former Systems International Airways aircraft, newly delivered to the museum in 2000. The #1 engine was removed and shipped to the Mid Atlantic Air Museum for their M404.

Delivered to Eastern during November, 1952 as N485A. Later desplayed at the Glenn L. Martin Museum.

Departing from Fort Lauderdale on an intra-Florida scheduled flight.