...and an Electra 10B, pictured here:
No registration letters visible but that's VH-UZO, c/n 1107 delivered to Ansett Airways on July 8, 1937 and last known (1978) to be on exhibit at the Marshall Airways Museum, in Bankstown, NSW as VH-ASM (note the "ASM" on the tail of the airplane in the photo). Today there is no Marshall Airways Museum listed but there is an Australian Aviation Museum in Bankstown. No Electra listed in the collection.
I have a vague recollection of hearing about an Aussie Electra being purchased from a museum for rebuild to airworthy condition.
Here’s some further info on that Australian Electra 10B c/n 1107, the one that for a time in the 1970s was owned by Sid Marshall, the Guinea Airways mechanic and pilot who filmed Amelia’s final takeoff in Lae. The best source for the story of this plane is already linked from the Electra Survivors Project page of Ameliapedia:
http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Lockheed%2010%20VH-UZO%20Ansett%20crash%207-3-43.htm As told there, by 2004 the restored c/n 1107 was in the collection of what was then called “Australia’s Museum of Flight,” located at the naval air station HMAS Albatross near Nowra, New South Wales. Another source probably dating from about that time also listed it as “on display” in that navy museum, along with a Lockheed 12A and more than 30 other historic aircraft:
http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Fleet_Air_Arm_Museum_(Australia) (The links provided in notes 4 & 5 no longer work.)
In 2006 this museum was renamed the “Fleet Air Arm Museum,” and has since been owned and managed by the Royal Australian Navy. C/n 1107 is not listed on their website as of August 2016:
http://www.navy.gov.au/history/museums/fleet-air-arm-museum#contactSo its current location is yet to be determined, but the Fleet Air Arm Museum is obviously the place to start the inquiry.
My guess is that given the focus of the museum on naval aviation, there may be no suitable place for the display of c/n 1107, even though it did see military service during WW II. (It and two sister-ships were “leased to the USAAF for transport work,” and “averaged 12 hours of flying per day and sometimes flew up to 20 hours per day,” in Australia, according to the article cited above.)
One key paragraph from that article: “In April 1981 the remains were obtained by Laurie Ogle for restoration, which was duly completed a decade later. In the process of restoration the original Wright Whirlwinds were replaced by Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Juniors, effectively turning the aircraft into a Lockheed 10A. On 5 September 1991 the aircraft was restored to the Register as VH-UZO, and had its first post-restoration flight the next day. This historic aircraft still exists and today (c.2004) resides with Australia's Museum of Flight at Nowra, NSW.”
So c/n 1107 was originally and throughout its service a Model 10B. Only later in the restoration work of 1981-91 was it in effect converted into a 10A with the change of engines.
Here’s a history of the museum that for a time housed c/n 1107, and may still, for all I know:
http://www.navy.gov.au/history/museums/fleet-air-arm-museum Addendum of Sun Aug 14: Further info from Australian Rob Russell, who had posted his 1976 photo of this plane outside the (Sid) Marshall Airways hangar in Bankstown, the photo from which Ric identified this Electra as c/n 1107
http://www.secretsofasydneypast.com/2008/05/marshall-airways-lockheed-electra.html:
Hi Bill. I don't have an email but I believe the FAA [Fleet Air Arm] museum can be reached on (02) 4424 1920. ASM/UZO [c/n 1107] doesn't seem to be on their display list, however it was gifted to them by Laurie Ogle so they should know where it is now.
Other links for anyone interested:
http://www.adastron.com/lockheed/electra/vh-uzo.htm[end of post from Rob Russell, aka "gtveloce," his blog-name. I omit his other links because I have already given them above.]
Now my comments on his post: It's an important new fact that Laurie Ogle gifted the plane to the Fleet Air Arm Museum, then known as Australia's Museum of Flight. Laurie Ogle acquired the plane in 1981 and had it restored, by 1991 converting it from a Model 10B to Model 10A, its present official designation. As Rob says, that museum should know its present location.
The document Rob linked above is also important as a detailed history of this plane, and has been added as a link from the Electra Survivors Project page in Ameliapedia. Note the number of forced landings! Note also the great photos, before, during, & after restoration.
How ironic that this plane when brandnew was in shipment across the central Pacific in July 1937!