Entered service with Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1957. Converted to a freighter in 1960 and operated in Alaska from 1962 to 1972. Acquired by Maurice Roundy in 1983, flown to Auburn / Lewiston and parked outside his house together with stablemate N8083H. Both were purchased together with N974R in 2006 as an ambitious restoration project for Lufthansa, a former Starliner operator, to create a flying example in original airliner format. Rapidly escalating costs caused Lufthansa to terminate the project in 2018. Currently stored disassembled in Germany.

K25 slide scan. Delivered to TWA 1957, converted to freighter 1960. Alaska Airlines 1962, converted to bulk fuel carrier 1968 for use on the North Slope by Red Dodge Aviation and Prudhoe Bay Oil Distribution, stored Anchorage 1972, Kenai 1974. Onyx Aviastion 1974, Burns Aviation 1975. Abandoned Stewart-Newburgh, NY 1976. Acquired by Maurice Roundy 1983 and flown to Auburn-Lewiston, ME. Acquired by Lufthansa Berlin Stiftung 2006 together with N974R and N8083H, restoration started 2008 in a purpose built hangar. With costs soaring project was cancelled 2018 with the aircraft being dismantled.

At the time, flown by Burns Aviation was formerly "Star of Tigris" from Trans World. This aircraft is currently undergoing restoration / overhaul / preservation for Lufthansa as D-ALAN - hopefully she will grace the skies again.

Photo by Ted Gibson.

With her wings removed, N7316C awaits an uncertain future in the Lufthansa Technik hangar.

Photo taken on a visit to Maurice Roundy's house on a cold January day

Lufthansa purchased all three of Maurice Roundy's Starliners at auction in December 2007. Aircraft was used as a source of spares for the restoration of N7316C. Will be restored and painted in period TWA colors as a cocktail lounge adjacent to the former TWA terminal at JFK Airport. The project, which includes a 500-room hotel, is scheduled for completion in March 2019.

Everyone needs to have a couple of Starliner Super Connies parked in their backyard.

With the name on the nosewheel door

Lufthansa is undertaking the mother of all aircraft restorations in a hangar at Auburn-Lewiston Airport. Maurice Roundy's former Starliner has been stripped down to bare bones, with inspection and repair currently underway. No defect is too small to repair and the final product will be as close to the way she came out of the factory in 1957 as humanly possible. Restoration continues in 2017.

For many years, half of the world's surviving Starliners sat in owner Maurice Roundy's back yard. N8083H c/n 1038 is in the background.

No glass cockpit here!

Maurice Roundy has begun the restoration of his two L1649A's located at Auburn-Lewiston Airport.

Maurice Roundy has begun the restoration of his two L1649A's located at Auburn-Lewiston Airport. 16C contributed two engines to the successful ferry flight of Maurice's third Starliner, N974R, last October.