Last Updated on August 4, 2025 by Matt Staff Aviation’s early days were full of risk, invention, and unshakable resolve.

On the morning of December 6, 1957, the prototype L-188 Electra, construction number 1001, N-number N1881, took off from Lockheed Air Terminal (today Hollywood-Burbank Airport) in Burbank, California.

On July 29, 1937, the Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra made its first flight. This versatile aircraft became a global airliner and the basis for the WWII-era Hudson bomber, famously flown by Howard ...

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (NYSE: LMT) and Electra.aero Inc. (“Electra”) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore opportunities for Electra’s EL9 ultra-short takeoff and landing (Ultra-STOL) ...

Electra says the design allows the aircraft to take-off at only 35kt (65km/h) and in a distance of just 46m (150ft); range is a claimed 1,100nm (2,037km). Service entry is targeted before 2030.

Before a House subcommittee investigating the Lockheed Electra crash in Boston that took 62 lives, Braniff Airways Captain Trooper A. Shaw gave the ill-fated Electra a supreme accolade: "The ...

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works is collaborating with Electra to develop the EL9, a hybrid-electric aircraft with ultra-short takeoff and landing (Ultra-STOL) capabilities. The EL9 utilizes blown ...

Amelia Earhart stands next to her Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu. Her disappearance remains one of aviation's biggest mysteries.

On July 2, the 88 th anniversary of famed aviator Amelia Earhart's disappearance, Purdue University announced an expedition to confirm whether or not the wreckage of her plane has been found ...

Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) and Electra.aero have signed a MoU to explore opportunities for Electra's EL9 ultra-short takeoff and landing aircraft. Electra's EL9 will transform military aviation ...

Lockheed Martin, a global defense technology company, will collaborate with Electra to explore ways to accelerate the development of the EL9 in areas including digital engineering, manufacturing ...

PARIS, June 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (LMT) Skunk Works ® (NYSE: LMT) and Electra.aero, Inc. ("Electra") signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore opportunities for Electra's ...