Photos of Aircraft N43WT

N43WT, 1943 Lockheed 18-56 Lodestar Lodestar, c/n 18-2565
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N43WT @ KFTW - Lockheed C-60 Big Beat-up Bastard Vintage Flight Museum - by Ronald Barker
Ronald Barker
@ KFTW
N43WT @ KFTW - Lockheed C-60 Big Beat-up Bastard Vintage Flight Museum - by Ronald Barker
Ronald Barker
@ KFTW
N43WT @ KFTW - Lockheed C-60 Big Beat-up Bastard at the Vintage Flight Museum - by Ronald Barker
Ronald Barker
@ KFTW
N43WT @ KFTW - Lockheed C-60 Big Beat-up Bastard at the Vintage Flight Museum - by Ronald Barker
Ronald Barker
@ KFTW
N43WT - Here is a piece of nose art that I did for a guy that loved Star Wars. This piece was taken from the engine nacelle area of N43WT. Very few pieces of the fuselage, inner wings and engine nacelles were scrapped. Most will live on as art work. - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT - Some motorcycle company asked me to use the plane as a backdrop for photos to go into their calender. i said sure. - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT - This was taken a few minutes after the tail was cut off. It was extremely beat up on the other side and the tail had severe corrosion. The tail was cut up into many pieces to later be used to paint replica nose art on. - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT - Here the fuselage is after we got home from the car show in Austin TX. A few hours later it would be cut in half, in preparation for its new life as a display in FtWorth. We had acquired several tickets from the police while towing it. - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT - This is the nose of N43WT after I painted the nose art. I thought this name was rather appropriate after all it had been through. This was taken at a hot rod car show in Austin TX called the Lone Star Round Up in April 2012. people absolutely loved it! - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT - This was taken the day I delivered the remains of N43WT to FtWorth TX. The guys at Greatest Generation Aircraft put this on a trailer for educational purposes. - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT - This is how I found it in a junkyard! I am looking for any and all photos, stories and info on this airplane. I would like to try to verify that it once belonged to actress Betty Hutton. Please contact me if you can help. - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT - Interior shot after removal of debris left from being flooded by Hurricane Ike. I'm looking for any and all info on this WWII relic. If you have info, photos or stories let me know! - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT - The cockpit is missing a few instruments, but over all it is the best part of what is left of N43WT - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT - She isn't looking to good after being submerged in Hurricane Ike, being beat up in a junkyard and cut on by the Galveston TX Fire Department. - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT - Remains of Lodestar N43WT after I hauled it home. It was submerged in Hurricane Ike and then sent to a junkyard in Galveston, TX. I bought the fuselage as a relic of WWII - by Jason Barnett
Jason Barnett
N43WT @ N69 - N-43WT was originally owned by Actress Barbra Hutton and used to fly her from set to set around the country. In the early seventies it was sold to the Sweets, Sandy, Willy & Bobby. Based at The Stormville New York Sport Parachute Center. It hauled Skydi - by Pat Rogers
Pat Rogers
@ N69
N43WT @ GLS - At Galveston Scholes Field - spray painted to indicate it is not to be scrapped in the afternmath of Hurricane Ike in 2008. - by Zane Adams
Zane Adams
@ GLS
N43WT @ N69 - Photo taken at its then home, Stormville NY 1974. Used to haul Skydivers to 12,500. Originally owned in the 1940s by actress Betty Hutton. - by Marty Tommer
Marty Tommer
@ N69
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