Lockheed Saturn 3778395 223678411 2008-07-05T06:11:04Z Sardanaphalus 427947 updating link using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] The '''Saturn''' ('''Model 75''') was a small feeder airliner produced by [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]] in the mid 1940s. The design team, lead by Don Palmer, created a high-wing, twin-engine monoplane with 14 seats and a top speed of 228 mph. [[Tony LeVier]] piloted the first flight on [[June 17]], [[1947]]. Lockheed had received 500 orders for this aircraft, priced at $85,000 each. But, by the time the design was verified, these orders had been cancelled, since war surplus [[C-47 Skytrain|C-47]]s filled the same market at a quarter the price. Lockheed lost $6 million from the development of two prototypes. ==References== * Boyne, Walter J., ''Beyond the Horizons: The Lockheed Story''. St. Martin's Press: New York, 1998. == See also == * [[List of Lockheed aircraft]] {{Lockheed}} {{Aviation lists}} ==External links== * [http://www.kbhrr.com/gallery/lockheed.php Historic Lockheed photographs, including the Saturn] [[Category:Lockheed Corporation|Saturn]] [[Category:Cancelled aircraft projects]] {{aero-1940s-stub}}