The Vega is one of the few aircraft that defined the "golden age of flight" in America in the 1920s and '30s. The Vega was a six-passenger monoplane built by the Lockheed company starting in 1927.

Magoffin’s Vega is particularly rare in that it’s one of nine built by the Detroit Aircraft Corporation as part of the DL-1 series (for “Detroit Lockheed”). The Detroit-built Vega had ...

Short, blond, athletic-looking, 21-year-old Burton Griffin works by night in the stock room of Vega's Burbank (Calif.) plant, goes to bed with the dawn. One morning last week young Griffin ...

Lockheed's engineering genius didn’t start with Kelly Johnson, says John Magoffin, standing by his Lockheed Vega last July at the Experimental Aircraft Association annual fly-in.

The little plane-making company the Lockheed created in the dawn of aviation has just entered a new era with the recent announcement of the largest commercial airplane order in history ...