ZK-AHX Lockheed
18-56 Lodestar
(c/n 2381)
Union Airways (and, by default, New
Zealand National Airways Corporation after 1 April
1947)
were one of a small number of airlines to make the Lodestar their prime
airliner.. Others of note
were BOAC for their African routtes (the largest user), National
Airlines of
Jacksonville, Florida
and South African Airways. NZNAC had a dozen or so of them.
All were ex-military C-60As,
ZK-AHX being ex 42-55944 and NZ3507 with the RNZAF. NZNAC
named
it 'Kororo'
This aircraft was sold in the US in 1952 as N4636V.