A fictional skin for Milton Shupe & Team's Lockheed 18 Lodestar in the livery of New England & Western Air Transport. The airline was real but never flew the Lodestar.
NEWAT was owned by the Tait Brothers, owners of the Tait Creamery, who also owned Springfield (Mass.) Airport and brought the Granville Brothers to Springfield to build the Gee Bee airplanes. The line served Boston, Springfield, Albany, Hartford and New York City for a few years before it folded in the very early 1930s, a casualty of the Great Depression. It's only equipment was the Ford Trimotor, but had the airline lived longer and prospered it might have flown the Lodestar in the years before and after World War Two.
NEWAT was owned by the Tait Brothers, owners of the Tait Creamery, who also owned Springfield (Mass.) Airport and brought the Granville Brothers to Springfield to build the Gee Bee airplanes. The line served Boston, Springfield, Albany, Hartford and New York City for a few years before it folded in the very early 1930s, a casualty of the Great Depression. It's only equipment was the Ford Trimotor, but had the airline lived longer and prospered it might have flown the Lodestar in the years before and after World War Two.
