Sold for scrap in the 1980s. Kevin Kerle photo

Project Magnet

Scrapped in 1979

To Helena vocational technical school. Delivered as N4257L in 1981. In 2023 location is Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California.

Delivered to C&S on 17 May 1951. Operator merged into Delta Airlines 26 February 1953. Sold to TWA on 20 April 1954. Photo obtained from Delta 60 years ago.

Qantas photo.

Scrapped 1981

Kevin Kerle photo.

Traded to Boeing. Departed Sydney in April 1963 for Burbank where it was scrapped.

54-0158 withdrawn from use in 1973 and scrapped. Photo bu Kevin Kerle.

Delivered October 1957 as "Southern Aurora". Flew first Qantas round-the-world service eastbound (January 1958). Lost prop during emergency landing in Nevada August 1959 and sold to Lockheed two months later as N9722C. Leased back August 1960 as "Southern Prodigal". Purchased March 1961. Withdrawn from use February 1962. Sold in US as N86682 in March 1963

Lots of work was done to modify the prop adjustment on the Aviodrome Constellation. On this afternoon the engines were started to perform a series of tests.

One of an excellent series of photos Qantas took of VH-EAD over Sydney and along Sydney's coast. This photo off Box Head, Broken Bay. -EAD was built as an L1049E in 1955 and was upgraded firstly with weather radar and then turned into a Super G with tip tanks. Sold in the US as N9721C in 1960.

"Flagship Copenhagen" served AOA from delivery in March 1946 until sale to Pan American in September 1950. Later XA-MAG and PP-PDP. From AOA 60 years ago.

This aircraft is the former famous C-121A warbird N494TW (ex USAF 48-609), which was bought by Pratt & Whitney and donated to Korean Air. It departed Avra Valley, AZ on 01 Apr 2005 on delivery to Busan-Gimhae, South Korea. The route flown was Tucson - Oakland - Anchorage - Cold Bay - Hakodate (Japan) - Inchon (South Korea) - Busan (South Korea). On 18 Apr 2005 it flew its last flight ever, to Jeongseok on Jeju Island. The Constellation is now preserved at the Korean Air Flight Academy airfield and painted in the colours of Air Korea with registration HL4003. The real HL4003 was an L-1649A(F) Starliner, c/n 1037.

On display at the Royal Air Maroc headquarters at Anfa.