Howard 350

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expat

Charter Member
Well, with this Lockheed Twin extravaganza (thank you Milton!) I was searching around and found this very cool looking Howard variant. I like the early 60's vibe with the wood grain. Cannot find any other record of it being an actual registered aircraft, nor sure if it might be a tricycle gear variant. Also, not clear from the Lockheed Twins site whether it was adapted from the L-18 or PV-1 Ventura. As Milton points out, these are all quite different aircraft. Interested to hear from experts more detail on this. One thing seems clear is that it had PW2800's and could hit 300mph.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.zoeller/LTSRootntl2/Howard_350.html
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That rather zoomy rendering is a bit fictional. The registration 'does not compute' as the first digit cannot be a zero. However, if you look at the Howard 700 page on Zoeller's site http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.zoeller/LTSRootntl2/Howard_700.html
the poor pics show a pretty good rendering of the same scheme, including the woodgrain.

Most of the Howard conversions were custom-order so there is no one universal design. Some were minimal mods, some went all the way with picture windows, long nose, etc. Without tracing individual airframe serial numbers it looks like H-250's came from Lodestars, while the -350s came from Ventura sources. Then there are the 3(?) BACC-400 tri-gear variants. To confuse things further, many airframes wore several registrations over their lives and got progressively modified along the way.

Like hotrod cars, each one is unique. Add in the various combos of Learstars and you can stay confused for quite a while.
 
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