Last registered as N283M in 1986, seen here with former registration OH-SIR showing through.

The aircraft was built as USAAF C-60A in 1943 but was later civilianised and served as an executive transport for a number of US companies before being converted to photo-mapping configuration in the early 1970s and exported to Finland as OH-MAP and later OH-SIR. It is now exhibited in the Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection at Oslo Gardermoen Airport, painted as "G-AGIH" one of the Norwegian crewed Lodestars that made clandestine flights between Scotland and Sweden during WWII.

Ex N238M, N105G, N69898, 42-55983. Later OH-SIR, G-BMEW, N238M

Ex-OH-MAP, N238M, N105G, N69898, 42-55983. Later G-BMEW, N238M

Ex OH-MAP, N238M, N105G, N69898, 42-55983. Later G-BMEW, N238M

Converted L-18 Lodestar.

Ex 42-55983, N69898, N105G, N238M and OH-MAP. Sold 1985 to UK as G-BMEW. Later N283M. [Nikkormat FTn]

Finnmap titles painted out but still visible. Ex 42-55983, N69898, N105G and N238M. Later OH-SIR, G-BMEW and N283M. [Nikkormat FTn + Nikkor 200mm/4]

[Nikkormat FTn + Nikkor 105mm/2,5]

Delivered to US Navy in January 1943 as R5O-5 BuAer 12457. Civilianised in 1950 as an L-18-56. Modified to Gulfstar standard in 1959.