| MAY39 |
Construction
completed at Burbank.
|
| 12MAY39 |
Export
CofA No E-5048 issued.
|
| 17MAY39 |
Delivered
to Aer Lingus Teoranta.
|
| 23JUN39 |
Added
to the Irish Register as EI-ABW.
|
| 10NOV39 |
Irish
CofA issued.
|
| 20MAR40 |
Australian
Ministerial approval granted for Guinea Airways Ltd to import two Lockheed
14s. Approval was also given for the aircraft to carry Australian markings
on their delivery flights to expedite diplomatic clearances. Aircraft were
to be purchased through W.S. Shackleton Ltd of London.
|
| 13APR40 |
Registration
application from Guinea Airways Ltd. Subsequently VH-ADY was allocated.
|
| 17APR40 |
GAL pilots
departed Adelaide to collect the aircraft.
|
| 15MAY40 |
Added
to the Australian Register as VH-ADY.
|
| 25MAY40 |
Struck
off the Irish Register on sale to Australia.
|
| 29MAY40 |
The two
L14s departed Dublin on delivery to Australia. The aircraft were painted
in camouflage with black Australian registrations underlined with blue/white/red
stripes.
|
| 09JUN40 |
Both L14s
arrived at Parafield in the record flying time of 65.5 hours.
|
| 10OCT40 |
Guinea
Airways application for CofA. The aircraft later entered service on the
Adelaide-Darwin courier run named "Adelaide".
|
| 26MAR41 |
Taxied
into a car at Alice Springs damaging a fin.
|
| 21APR42 |
Missing
on a flight from Alice Springs to Darwin with ten passengers and two crew.
|
| 30JUN42 |
Wreckage
finally found on a hill on "Annaburroo" Station, north of Pine Creek, N.T.
The aircraft was totally destroyed and there had been no survivors. In the
subsequent investigation it was determined that the pilots had become lost
during a dark and stormy night due to incorrect information being transmitted
to them by two ground stations. The ground based HF direction finder operator
had troubles with HF propagation because of the time of day and thunderstorm
activity. The aircraft overflew Batchelor and Darwin and when the crew found
themselves over the sea they radioed that they were turning back on a reciprocal
course. Again they overflew Darwin and Batchelor. The final communication
from the aircraft indicated that fuel was critical and that they were about
to attempt a forced landing in the rain and darkness. Killed were Captain
D.G. Cameron, First Officer W.T. Gray and ten USAAF personnel.
|
| 14AUG42 |
Struck
off the Register.
|
