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| Between flights while in service with Air India as "Rani of Sagurai" (via J. Roger Bentley) | Parked at Lohegaon AFB, Pune, India in January 1984, a few months before retirement (Stephen Piercey) |
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| Between flights while in service with Air India as "Rani of Sagurai" (via J. Roger Bentley) | Parked at Lohegaon AFB, Pune, India in January 1984, a few months before retirement (Stephen Piercey) |
- Final registration - BG579
- Delivered to Air-India International August 1958 as L1049G VT-DJX "Rani of Sagurai"
- Converted to freighter by Lockheed Air Service August to October 1960
- Inaugurated Air-India all-cargo service November 15, 1960
- To Indian Air Force January 16, 1962 as BG579
- Air India had maintained Indian Air Force and Navy Constellations at their Bombay overhaul base in accordance with the Lockheed maintenance schedule
- Due to a shortage of spares, Air India decided to terminate Constellation maintenance on March 31, 1984 and thus BG579 operated the Indian Air Force's last Constellation flight on that date
- Stored at Lohegaon AFB, Pune, India in derelict condition
- A credible source reports that the aircraft was not at Pune in September 2002, which supports the report that aircraft had been scrapped at Pune
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