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Description
| Notes: 6 Seat light transport | ||
| Manufacturer: | Lockheed | |
| Base model: | 12 | |
| Designation: | L.12 | |
| Version: | A | |
| Nickname: | Electra Jr. | |
| Basic role: | Commercial Transport | |
Specifications
| Length: | 36' 4" | 11.0 m | |
| Height: | 9' 9" | 2.9 m | |
| Wingspan: | 49' 6" | 15.0 m | |
| Wingarea: | 352.0 sq ft | 32.7 sq m | |
| Empty Weight: | 5,765 lb | 2,615 kg | |
| Gross Weight: | 8,400 lb | 3,810 kg | |
| Max Weight: | 8,650 lb | 3,924 kg | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 2 | ||
| Powerplant: | Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Jr. | ||
| Horsepower (each): | 450 | ||
Performance
| Range: | 800 miles | 1,290 km | |
| Cruise Speed: | 213 mph | 343 km/h | 185 kt |
| Max Speed: | 225 mph | 362 km/h | 195 kt |
| Climb: | 1,400 ft/min | 427 m/min | |
| Ceiling: | 22,900 ft | 6,980 m | |
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Canada Aviation Museum | +ttawa | Ontario |
L.12A on display
Canada Aviation Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Dakota J Vermont, IL | I love electras and am hoping to find one to buy. Sadly i cant find an l-10e like Amelia Earhart's so I'm looking for a 12a electra to paint like her's since the one from the movie Amelia had removable paint on it for the movie. I'm also working on 5b & 5c vega replicas like Earhart's and Post's that i hope to test fly. I'm also building my own b-25 with passinger seating and a cabin insted of a bomb bay. 09/18/2011 @ 07:01 [ref: 49101] |
| Dakota J Vermont, IL | I love electras and am hoping to find one to buy. Sadly i cant find an l-10e like Amelia Earhart's so I'm looking for a 12a electra to paint like her's since the one from the movie Amelia had removable paint on it for the movie. I'm also working on 5b & 5c vega replicas like Earhart's and Post's that i hope to test fly. I'm also building my own b-25 with passinger seating and a cabin insted of a bomb bay. 09/18/2011 @ 06:59 [ref: 49100] |
| Jack L Gilbert Rio Rancho, NM | The Electra Jr. pictured below in military pre-WW II markings is not a L-12A. It is, in fact, a C-40A, possibly the last of its kind. I served as the maintenance crew chief on that aircraft for several years when it was home-based in Vacaville, CA. It is USAAC S/N 38-538 (N93R) and is currnetly based in Southern Calif. It has undergone an extensive re-build since we had it and is now in pristine condition. The C-40 can be identified by the greenhouse windows on the cockpit overhead (non-exhistant in L-12s), a slightly more pointed nosecone, and by the second engine-mounted generator. BTW, there is another film which features a L-12: Day of the Jackal. 01/31/2009 @ 20:42 [ref: 23594] |
| Kaye Chandler Petaluma, CA | September 18, 2008 the Spirit of TWA, Lockheed 12A Electra Jr owned by Ruth Richter Holden and Curt "Rocky" Walters flew round trip coast to coast to celebrate the grand opening of JetBlue's new Terminal 5 JFK. Ruth Richter Holden and the Lockheed 12A were guests of JetBlue. JetBlue was honoring all of the contributions TWA founders Paul Richter (ruth's father), Jack Frye, and Walt Hamilton did for commercial aviation. The Lockheed 12A is the oldest flying TWA aircraft.
Please visit our website about the odyssey of the Spirit of TWA. http://www.spiritoftwa.com Kaye Chandler documentary producer and web designer 11/03/2008 @ 09:39 [ref: 22973] |
| Eddie C Burbank, CA, CA | Re: Lockheed L.12A 'Electra Jr.', there is a lot of confusion and a fair number of conflicting accounts about the aircraft used in the film. Some have even claimed that no real airplanes were used in the departure sequence at the end of the film. But take a good look at the movie Casablanca on DVD. There are shots that are clearly done using a model (or models), such as the liftoff of the Lockheed at the end of the film, and of course the famous shot on the soundstage with the cutout and little people in the background, but clearly a REAL Lockheed was used in a few of the night shots. In the book "Casablanca: As Time Goes By" author Frank Miller says the footage was filmed by a second unit (presumably at Van Nuys, or "Metropolitan airport" as it was then known) on July 23, 1942 (see page 153). For a still frame of one of these shots see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Casablanca_Electra-nose.jpg 04/21/2008 @ 10:19 [ref: 20642] |
| MHuss Fitchburg, MA | Sorry to burst your bubble, but according to interviews with the producer of 'Casablanca', because of wartime censor restrictions, they could not use a real aircraft for fear that they would give away aeronautic secrets. Taking photos of real aircraft were strictly prohibited in the early part of the war. Instead, a model of an imaginary airplane was used. Stupid, in my opinion, since Electra's were registered in both Germany and Japan. 11/09/2002 @ 06:49 [ref: 6044] |
| William Tavares Ketchikan, AK |
I'm not sure what kind of aircraft that was in Casablanca - but I read somewhere that the plane in the background shots was a half size model and the ground crew were "little people." 09/18/2001 @ 11:31 [ref: 3208] |
| Jorrit de Jager doorn, LA | We are currently stripping and rebuilding an 12A in our museum in Soesterberg, the Netherlands. It's an old airforce training plane and it has been standing outside for several years.
We are now inspecting every detail of it and after this is finished we will put it back together and display it in our museum. You can visit the museums homepage at http://www.mlm.mindef.nl/ 06/03/2001 @ 14:09 [ref: 2402] |
| Jack Rogers Attleboro, MA | The Lockheed 12-A, "Electra Junior," appears to be the plane featured in the famous airport departure scene at the end of the film, Casablanca.
It seems unlikely that the L-12-A actually was being used at that time by Air France. Comments? 05/30/2001 @ 20:03 [ref: 2385] |
| Bob Leyner , CO | My wife and I are working on s/n 5.
We are currently looking for drawings and extrusions or extrusion dies for the main spar. Any help would be appreciated. 02/26/2001 @ 13:55 [ref: 1708] |
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