On this day in aviation history, January 9, 1943, a large four engine transport aircraft with three tail fins rose from the runway at Burbank Airport, California. This was the Lockheed Constellation, ...
Airlines loved the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 for its versatility: it could carry 90-135 passengers, depending on variant and ...
OSHKOSH – An aircraft highly regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful airliner designs is making its return to Oshkosh. The Lockheed Constellation will be on display for the entire week at Boeing ...
The rare, airworthy Lockheed Constellation *Bataan* (C-121A model), owned by the Air Legends Foundation, is scheduled to return to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh this summer. Known as "the Connie," the ...
Paris has the Eiffel Tower. San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge. But only Penndel has a Lockheed Constellation as its most renowned landmark. Or did. Still does. Sort of. For 30 years Jim Flannery’s ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. 1959 photograph showing the failed engine of an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Model 1049 Super Constellation in flight somewhere over the east coast ...
National Air and Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Aircraft, NASM.XXXX.1183.A, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Material is subject to ...