Zed Vega V2 Livery Download
Leonora Schallhorn
S/N 40, N965Y (NC199E, NR199E), Sold to Montana Development and Air Transport 1930. Named The Viking, fitted with floats and taken on air survey to Labrador and Greenland by Donald MacMillan and pilot Charles Rocheville 1931. Sold to Paul Grade 1932. Then to Mace Naylor 1933. Next owner George Westinghouse in 1935, painted gray/blue and named Elizabeth Lind. Sold to Lana Kurtzer in 1955. Next owner famous movie pilot Paul Mantz in 1956. Repainted in 1962 and registered as former Earhart N965Y, painted red/gold. Leased to Continental Airplanes in 1964 and painted white/red in Varney Air Transport livery. To Henry Ford Museum in 1966. On display in Michigan museum.
S/N 72, NC105W (NC898E, XA-DOK, XB-MAA, N174D, N105D), Sold to Erle Halliburton, Independent Oil and Gas in 1929. First Executive model with table, typewriter, toilet installed. Acquired by Phillips Petroleum in 1931. Sold to three other owners in 1931, Parks Air Collage, Robert McGlynn and Maurice Foley. Rebuilt as Vega 5C for John Wyeth of Wyeth Hardware in 1932. Flown by Iowa Aerial Surveys in 1939. Next owner Register and Tribune Employees Credit Union in 1940. Then aircraft dealer Charles Babb in 1942. Then two owners in Mexico 1944 to 1955. Next owner was Hycon Manufacturing in 1955. Then Elwell Nold in 1957. A unique season of restricted operation and antiradar testing with General Electric Company in 1957. Restored by David Jameson in 1963 to the white/blue Winnie Mae livery. On display EAA Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin for many years. Purchased by Kermit Weeks. Restoration in progress in 2020.
This airplane is a model Vega 1 manufactured July 6, 1928 by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, CA. It was S/N 9, a very early airframe. It left the factory with a Wright Whirlwind J5C engine of 220HP, S/N 8554. It was a five-place aircraft weighing 2,900 pounds. It was sold on July 10, 1928 to Maddux Air Lines, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. Below is a photograph of NC6526 in Maddux livery, courtesy of this REFERENCE, page 113.
I recently bought the PV 2D after the price fell slightly, and I have been enjoying it in ground RB. However, every time I look at it in the hangar, I can't help but notice that it has the wrong propeller blades. I know this is a small gripe, and that model in all other regards - except for functioning (AN/APS-3 search and bombing radar ( -20619-189155-pv-2d-harpoon-missing-radar/)) - is excellent, but this flaw has started to really bug me. As far as I can tell, the PV 2D is modeled with what appears to be the same propellers on the B-34 and the Hudson mark V - the Hudson MK. V had Hamilton Type 6227A-0 propellers ( -hudson-series/). But, as the Vega's Electra, developed into differentvariants, so too did the Hamilton Standard propellers. From what I can tell, some of the later Electra's, B-34 and on, should use a Hamilton Standard broad blade propeller, and specifically, for the B-34, the Hamilton Standard DWG No. 6477A-(12) 18 ( -e). Although I am not entirely sure exactly what type of propeller was used on the PV 2D, all the images I can find of period and restored PV 2D aircraft use a broad blade or paddle blade Hamilton, not the thinner chord variants used on the earlier iterations. The best Reference I can find is Taigh Ramey's restored PV 2D - good shots of the propellers here ( =krzOSg6xWWs&ab_channel=TilTuli). This PV 2D is the only flying PV 2D, and has been completely restored to its original configuration and livery that it shipped with in late 1945. So far I have been looking through Hamilton Standard Propeller Manuals and I am certainly out of my depth.If anyone has more information, please add it to this thread. In the meantime I plan to reach out to Taigh Ramey.
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