Identifier2000-06-20_image_160SourceThe William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers (2000-06-20), Box 45, Folder 8CreatorLear, Inc.DescriptionPhotograph of William P. Lear with a Lockheed Lodestar aircraft, circa January 1953. Lear is pointing to an exhaust covering on the engine cowling, one of the modifications made to increase the aircraft's efficiency.
Typed caption on verso: "#8165-D January 27, 1953. William P. Lear, Chairman of the Board and Director of Research and Development of Lear, Incorporated, points to the new arrangement of the exhaust covering on the newly designed jet exhaust cowl on the Lear, Inc., executive transport Lodestar."
Lear, Inc., [William P. Lear with Lockheed Lodestar aircraft], [2000-06-20_image_160]. Museum of Flight Digital Collections, accessed 11/12/2025, https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/nodes/view/4844
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