Bonjour from France;
All the L-149s :
_ L-049-46-10 serial number 1965: Delivered as C-69-1-LO to USAAF, 18 october 1944, converted to L-049 and sold to "Transcontinental Airline". Flying for Transcontinental, under the livery of TWA with the USAAF registration !
11 march 1948: Lineas Aereas de Panama
Sold to El Al, october 1950, then converted to L-149 type. Called by El Al, L-249 !
Flying from 1950 to 1961 with El Al on Tel Aviv-New York and Tel Aviv-Johannesburg.
Sold in 13 feb 1962 to "Sky Tours Universal" , sold, November 1962 to "Skyways of London" sold 23 may 1963 to Euravia Ltd, retired april 1964 Euravia Ltd ? , all, british charters companies. Sold finally to "Britannia" 16 aug 1964, another UK charters company.
Scrapped at Luton airport (UK), may 1965
Registrations:
USAAF and Transcontinental: 43-10313
Trancontinental: N90827
Lineas Aereas de Panama: RX-123
El AL: 4X-AKA
Sky Tours Universal: G-ARXE
Skyways of London : G-ARXE
Euravia Ltd: G-ARXE
Britannia: G-ARXE
www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?q=G-ARXE&u=regThe comments said about the photo: L-749A: False, G-ARXE is a L-149 !
_ C-69-1-LO serial number 1968Delivered to USAAF 11 may 1945.
TWA / Intercontinental Airways
Lineas Aereas de Panama: may 1948
El Al : april 1951 ?
El AL : shot down by a Bulgarian aircraft, near Petrich, Bulgaria: 27 july 1955.
Registrations:
USAAF: 43-10316
TWA / Intercontinental: NC90829
Lineas Aereas de Panama: RX-121
El Al: 4X-AKC
_ L049-51-26, serial 2032: delivered to Pan Am, 20 feb 1946. Named "Clipper Flora Temple". Later converted to L-149 type. Transfered to Panair do Brasil, march 1955. Crashed on hills, during low visibility approach at Asuncion airport (Paraguay), 16 june 1955. 16 killed.
Registrations:
Pan Am: NC88832
Panair do Brasil: PP-PDJ
_ L049-51-26, serial 2037: delivered to Pan Am 15 juanary 1946, sold ? to Panair do Brasil.
Sold 28 april 1969 to ASL Arruda Industria.
Sold to Amazonense, 20 november 1971.
Crashed, Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil: 29 may 1972. 14 killed
Registrations:
Pan Am: NC88837
Panair do Brasil: PP-PDG
ASL Arruda Industria: PP-PDG
Amazonense: PP-PDG
www.flugzeugbilder.de/netsearch4.cgi?srch=PP-PDG&srng=2&stype=reg_ L049-51-26, serial 2038: delivered to Pan Am, 21 juanary 1946. sold ? to Panair do Brasil.
Scrapped.
Registrations:
Pan Am: NC88838
Panair do Brasil: PP-PDF
_ L049-51-26, serial 2050: delivered to Pan Am, 20 march 1946. sold ? to Panair do Brasil.
27 december 1969, sold to Asas Importadora e Exportadora.
Scrapped May 1974
Registrations:
Pan Am: NC88850
Panair do Brasil: PP-PDH
Asas: PP-PDH
www.flugzeugbilder.de/search4.cgi?srch=PP-PDH&stype=reg&srng=2_ L-049-51-26, serial 2055: delivered to Pan Am, 22 april 1946, named "Clipper Invincible". Converted to L-149, then sold to Delta Airlines, 1 feb 1956.
Landing gear damaged, because of non respect of checks lists during an approach. Parked and finally sold repaired to "American Flyers Airline" ( CIA covert company ? ), 1 april 1960.
Service from 1960 to 1967 for American Flyers Airline, under contract of US State Department of Defence: charters flights from Ft Ord, CA to East Coast.
Sold ? to California Airmotive corp. 1967
Parked at Lancaster Airport, CA, 1967. Scrapped at Lancaster, 1971.
Registrations:
Pan Am: NC88855
American Flyers Airline: N88855
1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/MasonDavid/4780.htm_ L049-51-26, serial 2057: delivered to Pan Am 19 april 1946, sold ? to Panair do Brasil.
Scrapped.
Registrations:
Pan Am: NC88857
Panair do Brasil: PP-PDI
_ L049-51-26, serial 2059: delivered to Pan Am, 30 april 1946, named "Clipper Flying Eagle". Then Named "Clipper Talisman when converted to L-149.
Leased to Panair do Brasil, july 1955.
Returned to Pan Am some time later. Then finally sold to Panair do Brasil, 31 december 1957. Named "Jeronimo Fragoso de Albuquerque". Service from 1957 to 1962.
Stored and parked from 1962 to 1965 before the dissolution of Panair do Brasil. Sold, 1969 to a brasilian scrapping company.
Registrations:
Pan Am: NC88859
Panair do Brasil: PP-PDQ
_ L049-51-25, serial 2067: delivered to Pan Am, 1946. Converted to L149.
Sold to Delta Airlines, 1 feb 1956. Sold to American Flyers Airline, 1 april 1960.
1967: California Airmotive Corp
1968: Fun Leasing Inc
1970: Tex Hou Inc
Scrapped june 1974, Galveston, Texas.
Registrations:
Pan Am: NC88868
Pan AM: N90617
all others: N90617
Additionnal notes: from a french book:
Lockheed serial numbers:
N°1961 to 1980: C-69 for USAAF/TWA: Planes delivered to TWA during WWII, but transfered to USAAF.
And the five first commercial L-049 delivered to BOAC.
N°2021 to 2088: All other L-049, pure commercial type. Delivered first to TWA, Pan Am, AOA, KLM, Air France, LAV Linea Aeropostale de Venezuela.
Hope this help.
Sorry for my english...
There is a lot of color profiles in a very rare French Book about the Constellation family: "De l'excalibur au Starliner: Lockheed Constellation". Editor: Histoire et collections. 2006. Autor: Dominique Breffort.
Sorry for the commercial link but: see here.
www.amazon.fr/Lockheed-Constellation-lExcalibur-Starliner-militaires/dp/2915239614/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233268371&sr=8-1To track all the registration, have a look to that, entering a registration ID at the top of the page:
yakfreak.aviation.at/vap/prolist.php?airport=&suche=&anzahlbilder=10&submit=submitLineas Aereas de Panama: was a covert company founded by an American Pilot for the Israeli independence war:
a book:
books.google.fr/books?id=2-zNlHsxZgcCwww.israelvets.com/pictorialhist_air_force.htmlwww.cieldegloire.com/sq_iaf_106.phpaviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19480414-0www.goldenyears.ukf.net/reg_RX-.htmCIA declassified doc about Lineas Aereas de Panama (Burbank and New York):
www.faqs.org/cia/docs/131/0000258361/PROBABLE-EFFECTS-ON-ISRAEL-AND-THE-ARAB-STATES-OF-A-UN-ARMS-EMBARGO-(ORE-48-48).html
