Category:N12222 (aircraft)

It was first built as an Lockheed 8 Altair and flew for Transcontinental & Western Air, until it had a crash landing on october 10th, 1931 in Columbus, Ohio. It was then repaired and modified to a Lockheed 9C Orion at the Lockheed plants in Burbank. The Aircraft was then owned by Shell until she suffered severe damage on mai 7th, 1936. After beeing repaired she then had a series of different owners, until she was put on display at Orange County Airport. In 1976 the aircraft -which was in a pretty bad shape by now- was bought by the Swiss Transportation Museum and restored in old Swissair colors with Reg.# 167.