Aircraft Photo of G-AGCM | Lockheed 18-07 Lodestar | BOAC - British Overseas Airways Corporation

Aircraft
Registration / Serial:	G-AGCM
Aircraft Original Type:	Lockheed 18 Lodestar
Aircraft Generic Type:	Lockheed 18 Lodestar
Aircraft Version:	Lockheed 18-07 Lodestar
C/n (msn):	18-2093
Operator Titles:	BOAC - British Overseas Airways Corporation
Aircraft Name:	Lake Mariut

Location
Location:	In Flight
Country:	Egypt

Photo Date:	September 1941 to December 1945
Photo from:	AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Photo ID:	629263

Photo Comment
'Flying over Cairo before landing at Heliopolis.' Built in 1940 as NC33617 for Catalina Air Transport of Long Beach, California. Impressed in July 1941 as a C-56C, serial 42-53503. Transferred to UK as a Lodestar Mk I, AX759, in September 1941, and to BOAC as G-AGCM that same month. To RAF as VR955 in August 1946. Withdrawn from use in April 1947. Photo by: N S Clark / Imperial War Museums This photo was added on 11 December 2023, and has since been viewed 383 times.

Photo Comment

'Flying over Cairo before landing at Heliopolis.' Built in 1940 as NC33617 for Catalina Air Transport of Long Beach, California. Impressed in July 1941 as a C-56C, serial 42-53503. Transferred to UK as a Lodestar Mk I, AX759, in September 1941, and to BOAC as G-AGCM that same month. To RAF as VR955 in August 1946. Withdrawn from use in April 1947. Photo by: N S Clark / Imperial War Museums

This photo was added on 11 December 2023, and has since been viewed 383 times.

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