Lockheed L-10 Electra PBA Army Air Corps Citation 5

Citation 5

and enclosed cockpits

full-scale mock-up

selected to replace the Flying Tigers

he envisioned a radical design to counter new Allied aircraft with superior performance over existing Japanese types and believed a turbojet engine would propel the ultimate Shinden

Lockheed L-10 Electra PBA Army Air Corps Citation 5Lockheed L 10 Electra PBA airplane model. The prototype for this 10 passenger all metal plane was first flown on February 23, 1934, and entered service during 1934, initially with Northwest Airlines. By the late 1930s it was being used by eight American operators. The Electra L 10 E is probably best known as the plane that Amelia Earhart disappeared in. Use of the Electra by small civil operators continued after World War II, as it was cheap to buy