Operated with Seaboard from new in 1954 and after a period of service with Capitol Airways it was scrapped at Wilmington/DE some time after 1967.

On the right is a Saudi C-123B Provider, 434, which was delivered in 1957. Another Saudi Provider is on the left. The Super Connie was with the DC ANG by 1967. Also MATS became MAC in 1966. Photo by: Rowland Illick / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

shortly after arrival at the Hermeskeil Museum

Delivered to TWA as 'Star of the Tagus' in 1957 and flew with them until 1967, being converted to a freighter in 1960. Sold to California Airmotive in 1967 and to Prudhoe Bay Oil Distributing in 1969 before being withdrawn from use and stored at Anchorage in 1971. Moved to the fire training area in 1977 and scrapped in the mid 1990s.

Delivered to Aerlinte Eireann as EI-ACR in 1947 then sold to BOAC as G-ALAK in 1948. Here on lease to Skyways, which ran until June 1962 when it was transferred to Euravia at Luton (EGGW). In 1965 it went to ACE Freighters, then languished at Coventry (EGBE) from 1966 to 1968 when it was delivered to Miami (KMIA) as CP-797. Sold as OB-R-899 with the manufacturer's plate transferred from c/n 2549. Believed scrapped at Lima, Peru in the 1970s.

Built in 1947 for Qantas as VH-EAA and flown on the Royal Tour of 1954. Sold to BOAC in 1955 and here being operated by Skyways in their turquoise/red livery. On 13 September 1964, while registered LX-IOK with Interocean Airways, it was wrecked at Addis Ababa (HAAB) in a runway overrun.

Survived with N7316C, parked at Auburn-Lewiston, Maine adjacent to owner Maurice Roundy's house. Flew with TWA from 1958, then acquired by Alaska Airlines as a freighter in 1962, passing through a number of hands from 1968, initially as a bulk oil carrier. Arrived here in 1986. Bought by Lufthansa at a bankruptcy auction in 2007 as part of a restoration project. Not then flyable due to wing corrosion and used as a spares source for N7613C. Refurbished for static display in original TWA colours. Currently in use as a cocktail bar at the TWA Hotel adjacent to the old TWA terminal at JFK Airport.

A US Navy WV2 from 1958, then converted in 1962 to an NC-121K and allocated to VXN-8 Oceanographic Air Survey Unit at NAS Patuxent River as JB925, an airborne geophysical laboratory. Used in Project Magnet to gather magnetic data to improve oceanic navigational charts. Seen here overnighting at Prestwick during one of its several weeks long international detachments. Its red bomb-like towed magnetometer can just be seen wound up to the fuselage underside mounting between the main wheels. It carries a cartoon of the Paisano bird, also known as the Roadrunner. Retired in 1973.

Aircraft wears the crests of the city of Nijmegen and of the US 82nd Airborne Division which fought there during operation Market Garden in September 1944. Nijmegen crashed near Prestwick on 21 October 1948. All 40 people on board lost their lives, including KLM's chief pilot Koene Dirk Parmentier of Uiver fame. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Sold in Mexico as XA-LIP in November 1955. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

Something of a tourist attraction in Santa Cruz, even having its own Wikepedia page, the Avión Pirata as the Connie is known, has been in Bolivia since being forced to land El Trompillo airport in 1961 by the Bolivian Air Force, suspected smuggling contraband such as cigarettes, textiles and whiskey. Placed in its current location in 1979 the aircraft has subsequently been used as a library, a bank and a travel agency. Later painted in Pepsi colours, it also spent several years in the colours of local airline Aerosur.

Leased by Pan Am in 1947, this L-749 made the 'first commercial flight around the world' - New York to San Francisco via Europe and Asia. It completed the circumnavigation as a ferry flight because Pan Am was not allowed to fly domestic services. PAA could carry passengers between foreign cities on the route, however, and it was in the timetable as PA flight 1 and 2 for many years. The Constellation became F-BAZR and F-ZVMV and survives with the Musée the l'Air. Photo from: University of Miami

Delivered to Qantas as L-1049E VH-EAE in 1954 and modified to L-1049G/02 in 1958, then to Capitol from July 1960. Stored at Wilmington/DE by 1968 and later scrapped.

Built in 1953 as L-1049C PH-TFW then later re-registered as above and also updated to L-1049E/01 in mid-1950s. Withdrawn from use at Amsterdam in 1960 and scrapped in 1965.

Quite a cluttered view but that was the situation when looking at the port side of this lovely Conny, really F-BHML, in 2021. See her other photos at AirHistory for more information on her past.

The Super Connie looks a bit lost in EAL's 1965 'hockey stick' livery. Eastern conducted the last commercial US L-1049 flight in February 1968. N6209C to HI-228. Photo from: Federal Aviation Administration

Built in 1958 and sold to Trek Airways as ZS-DVJ in 1964. In 1967 it was painted in Luxair livery as LX-LGX and operated non-stop flights between Europe and South Africa to get around Apartheid related sanctions. Retired in 1969 then used as a tourist attraction at a resort, in Trek livery, until it was acquired by the SAA Museum in 1988 and put on display at Rand Airport.