Mc Culloch Lake Havasu City - formed by Robert P. McCulloch, president of the McCulloch Oil Co., as a private airline with two Constellations in 1964 to ferry potential buyers to Lake Havasu City, the city he started constructing that year in the Arizona Desert, approx. 240 miles east of Los Angeles. Interested customer were flown free of charge in the Connies from such centres as Cleveland, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas and Kansas City to view his city on a two day visit. 

c/n 1974 N54214 L-049 here in the first color scheme receiving
attention by a mechanic at Long Beach, CA in 1965, Zoggavia Collection.
This Connie was in service until end of 1965 and later used for spares.

The Connies were used until 1970, but were gradually replaced by L-188 Electra's from April 1968.

c/n 1970 N90831 L-049 in final colors in 1968, Zoggavia Collection.

McCulloch later flew regular charter flights after the take over of Vance International Airlines in late 1971 under the title McCulloch International Airlines Inc. He promoted more than 2,700 flights from 1963 to 1978  carrying 137,000 prospective buyers to Lake Havasu City.  Many of the city's residents initially purchased lots and Lake Havasu was born.