Lockheed L-10 Electra PBA Army Air Corps full-scale mock-up

full-scale mock-up

Colors and wood pattern may vary

Sikorsky HH-53 Jolly Green Giant helicopter model

Taking flight as a pure jet in 1942

selected to replace the Flying Tigers

Lockheed L-10 Electra PBA Army Air Corps full-scale mock-upLockheed L 10 Electra PBA airplane model. The prototype for this 10 passenger all metal plane was first flown on February 23, 1934, and entered service during 1934, initially with Northwest Airlines. By the late 1930s it was being used by eight American operators. The Electra L 10 E is probably best known as the plane that Amelia Earhart disappeared in. Use of the Electra by small civil operators continued after World War II, as it was cheap to buy