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Title: CAB chairman inspects new Lockheed propjet
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated December 1, 1956 reads, "James R. Durfee, right, Civil Aeronautics Board chairman, sits in cockpit of mockup of Lockheed's $2,000,000 Electra propjet transport unveiled in Burbank for CAB members to inspect. Jack Real, department manager in Lockheed flight test division, explains controls to Durfee."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00111780
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d011_f16_i26
CARL0005259853
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/46412
Subject: Durfee, James R.,--1897-
United States.--Civil Aeronautics Board
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation--Employees
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Turbine-propeller engines
Airplanes--Models--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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