Lockheed Constellation Survivors

N1552V c/n 2505

Operated by PNA and Western Airlines for ten years before being retired in November 1968 (AAHS Photo) At Seattle, Washington on March 17, 1968, eight months before retirement (Robert G. Hufford) Disassembled and stored in Kenai, Alaska after restaurant project failed to materialize
Cockpit arriving at the Scroggins Aviation yard at the Mojave Air & Space Port on August 24, 2024
(Scroggins Aviation Photo)
In good company with two DC-7 and a DC-9 cockpit in Mojave
(Scroggins Aviation Photo)
  • Final registration - N1552V
  • Delivered Air India March 1948 as L749 VT-CQR "Rajput Princess"
  • To Qantas January 1950 as VH-EAE "Bert Hinkler"
  • Converted to L749A September/October 1951
  • To BOAC August 1954 as G-ANTG
  • To Pacific Northern Airlines November 1958 as N1552V
  • To Western Airlines July 1967
  • Made last Constellation passenger flight in North American on November 26, 1968
  • Donated to the City of Kenai
  • Sold in approximately 1973 for use as a restaurant
  • Restaurant never happened and mistakenly assumed scrapped
  • Advertised on Craigs list June 2024 as "free airplane"
  • Planetags "claimed" the aircraft but cockpit saved by Scroggins Aviation
  • Remainder of fuselage "harvested" for Planetag keychains
  • Cockpit arrived at the Scroggins Aviation facility at the Mojave Air & Space Port August 24, 2024
  • Scroggins plans on using cockpit in a motion picture project with it eventually going to a museum


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