Special Lockheed 10A via Aviodrome to Czech Republic

Aviation-themed park Aviodrome will welcome a very special aircraft on the runway at Lelystad this afternoon. It is a stopover of a 1937 twin-engine Lockheed Electra 10A. The aircraft is on its way to the Czech Republic from America.

After being fully restored in Wichita (Kansas, United States), the aircraft - of the same type in which the famous American aviator Amelia Earhart crashed while flying around the world - flew via Canada, Greenland and Iceland, among other places, to Duxford in England.

Lockheed Electra

The Lockheed Electra was owned by shoe manufacturer Bata in Czechoslovakia before the war began. Two days before the Germans invaded the country in 1939, Bata moved the aircraft to safety. During the war, the plane was used by the British government and the Canadian Air Force. Then the plane came into the hands of a private individual in America.

Stopover

Czech Ivo Lukacovic, who makes his many dollars from a Google-like Internet service, is the new owner. The Lockheed 10A is now returning to the Czech Republic after more than 75 so, to be flown by Nikola Lukacovic, Ivo's brother. Because the aircraft can only fly for five hours at a time, several stops are necessary, including this one at Aviodrome.