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| At Burbank, CA in the rather attractive color scheme of Royal Air Burundi (J. Roger Bentley) | Still sporting Air Nevada colors in this August 1992 photograph at Greenwood Lake, NJ (RM Pettersen) | The cockpit of this aircraft is surprisingly intact after all these years (Daniel L. Berek) |
- Final registration - N9412H
- Delivered as Air France's first Constellation June 1946 as L049 F-BAZA
- To Hughes Tool Co February 1950 as N9412H
- Transferred to TWA May 1950
- To California Airmotive August 1959
- To Las Vegas Hacienda September 1959
- Leased to World Wide Airlines July 1962, Royal Air Burundi December 1962
- Returned from lease June 1964 and stored at Oakland, CA
- Leased to Edde Airlines 1963
- To Trans World Insurance Brokers December 1964
- To Las Vegas Hacienda April 1965 with lease to Edde Airlines continuing
- To McCullough Properties Inc May 1966
- To Mineral County Airlines June 1968 trading as Hawthorne Nevada Airlines and later Air Nevada
- Stored at Long Beach, CA by September 1969
- To Executive Party Club May 1970 and delivered to Burbank, CA same month
- Stored at Burbank, CA
- To Produce Custom Air in Jul 1972 and flown to Phoenix, AZ in March 1973
- Stored at Buckeye, AZ in Air Nevada markings
- Sold to Frank Lembo Enterprises May 1976 for $45,000 for use as a restaurant and lounge
- Flown to Greenwood Lake Airport, West Milford, NJ (probably the winter 1976-77) where it landed on the airport's 2,700 foot runway (see video of landing)
- Converted to a restaurant/lounge and opened for a short time in 1981
- Used as a pilot's shop in the mid-1990's
- Aircraft, along with airport, sold to the State of New Jersey in 2000
- Interior refurbished and used as a flight school office in 2005
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