On this day in aviation history, 68 years ago (December 6, 1957), the first flight of the Lockheed L-188 Electra took place. The Electra was the first large American turboprop airliner to be built.
1937 Khartoum Aviation Photographs, NASM.1989.0096, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Scope and Contents Close-up partial one-quarter left front view of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed ...
Pan American Airways (Pan Am) and Amelia Mary Earhart Photographs [Anderson], NASM.2015.0015, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Partial one-half left front view of Amelia Earhart ...