nr12283

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Babb, Charles

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  • TVL1970 said:
    Wiley Post and Charles Babb standing in front of the hybrid Lockheed Orion-Explorer (NR12283) in which Post and humorist Will Rogers would perish in Walakpa Lagoon, near Point Barrow, Alaska. See: aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=34148 Babb sold Post the aircraft which was built combining the salvaged wing of the Lockheed Model 7 Explorer Special named "Blue Flash" (ex- "Yankee Doodle"), registered as NR-101W (c/n 148), and the fuselage of a TWA (Transcontinental and Western Air) Lockheed Model 9E Orion Special, NC12283 (c/n 195). Here is another photo from the same occasion:

Charles M. Daniels Collection Photo

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  • Phil Rhodes said:
    Sure looks like Seattle - the south end of Lake Washington where Boeing is now, was a seaplane base during WW2 - if so, that's Mercer Island, covered with trees, on the right.
  • mambo1935 said:
    grace!
  • Gerry Asher said:
    Orion 9E NC12283, which took Wiley Post and Will Rogers to Point Barrow, Alaska, to meet their Maker...
  • Phil Rhodes said:
    Thanks, g.asher, that explains them in Seattle.

WILEY POST & CHARLES BABB 1935

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  • TVL1970 said:
    Wiley Post and Charles Babb standing in front of the hybrid Lockheed Orion-Explorer (NR12283) in which Post and humorist Will Rogers would perish in Walakpa Lagoon, near Point Barrow, Alaska. See: aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=34148 Babb sold Post the aircraft which was built combining the salvaged wing of the Lockheed Model 7 Explorer Special named "Blue Flash" (ex- "Yankee Doodle"), registered as NR-101W (c/n 148), and the fuselage of a TWA (Transcontinental and Western Air) Lockheed Model 9E Orion Special, NC12283 (c/n 195). Here is another photo from the same occasion: