Delta Air Lines  Lockheed L-100 Hercules   N9258R    (c/n  4170)
                                
                              

                                  In the 1950s Delta, along with most other carriers realized the potential of the air cargo market.
                                  In 1967 they received three Lockheed L-100 Hercules aircraft to replace the five Curtiss C-46s
                                  previously used for these duties.   The outstanding photograph above was taken by Bob Garrard
                                  at the Greater Cincinnati Airport at Covington, Kentucky when the L-100 was brand new in
                                  February of 1967.   Although normally used for commercial air cargo it was being used this day
                                  for company business to transport an engine for a Convair  880.   N9258R went to Pacific Western
                                  Airlines in 1973 as CF-PWK.  An image of it in this livery can be seen at
                                          http://aviation-safety.net/photos/displayphoto.php?id=19820411-0&vnr=1&kind=PC                                                       
                                  It was then sold to Northwest Territorial Airways and was destroyed by fire whilst unloading gasoline
                                  some 320 km east of Inuvik, NT on 11 April 1982.