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Is it possible to track/know buyer of a Lodestar re-imported into the USA in 7 of july 1953? Lockheed Lodestar type 18-26, Fabrication number 018-2007, registered in the USA with airframe number N9949F? This can be done or those registers/data are impossible to track down today in the USA?

Thank you for alll the help you can.

http://www.goldenyears.ukf.net/reg_CS-.htm
Found some original info from Portugal.

Found an old photo of her
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showth ... p?t=111975
Behind a DC-2 with a swastika!

Some other past info
She was formerly owned by Air Afrique with the reg of F-ARTG.
http://www.alger-roi.net/Alger/maison_b ... bert_1.htm

By the way, it looks like she became a Portuguese aircraft via being impounded in Portugal during the war considering she was French still in 1940.

By the way, you can search N#s in the FAA registry so I searched N9949F, all that comes up is this:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry ... rtxt=9949f

Which tells me 1) The Lodestar could be getting these numbers at some point since they were de-registered. 2) The fact that they were not re-registered tells me the plane is not flying at all. That could mean a few things like a museum bought here and stuffed her in the back hole of their storage lot, some poor sap bought her and ran her into the ground in some God for-saken

heheheh! well, yes, it was a glorious quest. BUT (there is a small detail that does not match): I had reached the same exact sites you mention, and

Ah, so the Portuguese operator got it through legitimate means. I had this idea that since France capitulated and it was putsing around North Africa, some sap more or less stole it! In hind sight, the partial-ownership between airlines would support the fact that the tail reg numbers are well established. If it was impounded that would probably not be so clear