Alaska Coastal Airlines  Lockheed Vega 5C    N47M                          (c/n  99)

                                       

                                            This shot is from the archives of the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum.  I know very little about the
                                            history of this Vega.  I do believe it spent all of its life on floats, and probably all of it in Alaska. ACA
                                            acquired it in the early 1950s and named it "Nugget".  Lars Opland indicates that it had been upgraded
                                            and modified with the engine and cowling from a Vultee BT-13. It was written off in a crash in 1968, in
                                            which the pilot, Fred Shelton, was killed