For the later corporation known as Lockheed-Vega, see Vega Aircraft Corporation.
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Vega
Role
Transport
Type of aircraft
National origin
United States
Manufacturer
Lockheed Aircraft Limited
Designer
John Knudsen Northrop and Gerald Vultee
First flight
July 4, 1927
Introduction
1928
Status
Retired
Primary user
Commercial air carriers
Number built
132
The Lockheed Vega is an American five- to seven-seat high-wing monoplane airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation starting in 1927. It became famous for its use by a number of record-breaking pilots who were attracted to its high speed and long range. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in one, and Wiley Post used his to prove the existence of the jet stream after flying around the world twice.
The LockheedVega is an American five- to seven-seat high-wing monoplane airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation starting in 1927. It became famous...
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built by the Vega Aircraft Company division of Lockheed (hence the "V" Navy manufacturer's letter that later replaced the "O" for Lockheed), was a version...
brother, Malcolm Loughead, which became Lockheed Corporation. Loughead legally changed his name in 1934 to Allan Lockheed, the phonetic spelling of his family...
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project engineer. In 1927 he joined the Lockheed Corporation, where he was a chief engineer on the LockheedVega transport. He left in 1929 to found Avion...
from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, using 6-passenger LockheedVega single-engine aircraft on June 20, 1928. The first flight was flown...
made the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic with her LockheedVega-5B equipped with Wittnauer instruments. Wittnauer products were widely...
designs; the B-17 Flying Fortress was built by Boeing (the designer), LockheedVega, and Douglas Aircraft. Automotive companies joined schemes to produce...
covering the 1,900 miles in 20 hours. In January 1932, he crashed a LockheedVega of Panagra at Santiago, and quit before he was fired. Reeve's move to...
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