SP-ASL    Douglas DC-2-115F                                              (c/n 1378)

                                 

                                       The second of the two new DC-2s purchased in 1935.  The above shot was in Palestine in
                                       1938, probably Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion International).  Services to this country had
                                       begun in 1937.      When the Nazis overran Poland in 1939 SP-ASL escaped to Romania,
                                       where it was then annexed by LARES as YR-GAD.            When the LOT aircraft which
                                       escaped to Romania were interned, the management of LOT, in order try to recover some
                                       of them, made a fictitious sale of their aircraft to Imperial Airways of London, where they
                                       were allocated the registrations G-AFEZ thru G-AGAJ.  This included LOT's Lockheed
                                      10A Electras, Lockheed 14 Super Electras and this DC-2, which was tio have been
                                       G-AGAD.  In the event these were never taken up, and, since there was already an airline
                                       alliance agreement between LOT and LARES, what LOT aircraft successfully fled to
                                       Romania were absorbed into the LARES fleet   As YR-GAD this DC-2 was destroyed
                                       by fire during enemy action at the small airfield at Boteni, Romania in August 1944.