Burbank Lockheed Aircraft Factory Photographs


An early, highly polished P-38 Lightning rolls out of the Lockheed hangar in Burbank, California, United States	Ventura aircraft being built for the British Royal Air Force, Vega Aircraft Corporation plant, Burbank, California, United States, Jun 1941

A building in the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation complex in Burbank, California, United States, 1940s	P-38 Lightning aircraft being built at the Lockheed factory in Burbank, California, United States, date unknown

George McCraw, worker at Vega Aircraft Corporation, applying nose art on a PV-1 Ventura aircraft, Burbank, California, United States, circa May 1942	American female aircraft worker working at the Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California, United States, Jun 1942

Prototype C-69 Constellation aircraft at Burbank, California, United States, 9 Jan 1943; seen in US Navy publication Naval Aviation News dated 15 Feb 1943	Lunch time at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943; 2,750 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were built by Vega during WW2

Two female workers in the nose section of a PV-1 aircraft, Lockheed factory, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943	Worker scraping a plaster cast for plexiglass for PV-1 turrets, Lockheed factory, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943

Workers checking a newly completed PV-1 aircraft, Lockheed factory, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943	Female riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California, United States, 1940s