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    The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") is a propeller-driven, four-engined airliner built by Lockheed Corporation starting in 1943. The Constellation series...
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    The Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation is an American aircraft, a member of the Lockheed Constellation aircraft line. The aircraft was colloquially referred...
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    military Constellations built (designated C-69) were retrofitted by Lockheed for use in the post-war airline industry as the L-049. In 1947, Lockheed unveiled...
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    The Lockheed L-049 Constellation was the first model of the Lockheed Constellation aircraft line. It entered service as the C-69 military transport aircraft...
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    The Lockheed L-749 Constellation is the first Lockheed Constellation to regularly cross the Atlantic Ocean non-stop. Although similar in appearance to...
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  • The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer. Lockheed was founded in 1926 and merged in 1995 with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin...
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    The Lockheed C-69 Constellation is a four-engined, propeller-driven military transport aircraft developed during World War II. It was co-developed with...
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    The Lockheed L-1249 Super Constellation was a turboprop-powered version of the Lockheed Constellation aircraft family. Built in 1954 and 1955, the aircraft...
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    United States Air Force (USAF). The military version of the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation was used to serve as an airborne early warning system to...
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    The Lockheed L-1649 Starliner is the last model of the Lockheed Constellation line of airliners. Powered by four Wright R-3350 TurboCompound engines,...
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    The Lockheed L-649 Constellation was the first real civilian version of the Lockheed Constellation line, as the Lockheed L-049 Constellation was a simple...
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  • Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") was a propeller-driven airliner powered by four 18-cylinder radial Wright R-3350 engines. It was built by Lockheed between...
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  • model. Lockheed Aequare Lockheed AQM-60 Kingfisher Lockheed MQM-105 Aquila Lockheed D-21 Lockheed X-7 Vega Aircraft Corporation Lockheed Constellation variants...
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  • The Lockheed Constellation was an American civil airliner and military transport built in the 1940s and 1950s; this is a list of its variants. L-049 The...
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    engine No. 2. In January 1960 the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation conducted a test, flying another Lockheed Constellation in a similar manner to that of the...
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  • The Lockheed XB-30 (company model L-249) was the design submitted by Lockheed after the request by the United States Army Air Forces for a very heavy...
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    have occurred in Portugal and also the deadliest involving the Lockheed Constellation. A memorial to the victims was erected on Pico da Vara at 37°48′N...
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    Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 (FT739/FTL739) was a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation propliner that disappeared on March 16, 1962, over the western Pacific...
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    Truman. The "Air Force One" call sign was created in 1954, after a Lockheed Constellation carrying President Dwight D. Eisenhower entered the same airspace...
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  • of stars. Constellation or constellations may also refer to: Constellation Airlines, a defunct Belgian charter airline Lockheed Constellation, a propeller-driven...
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    Super Constellation Lockheed C-121 Constellation Lockheed R7V-1 Constellation Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star Lockheed L-1649A Starliner Lockheed P-2 Neptune...
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  • The Lockheed Constellation was used by dozens of airlines and militaries around the world. In military service, the Navy/Air Force EC-121 Warning Star...
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    DC-7 Lockheed L-188 Electra Lockheed Constellation Lockheed L-049 Constellation Lockheed L-649 Constellation Lockheed L-749 Constellation Lockheed L-1049...
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    home city again. The Lockheed Super "G" Constellation ("Super-Connie"), which holds the distinction of being the first Constellation ever to be fully restored...
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    A British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Lockheed L-749A Constellation crashed and caught fire as it attempted to land at Kallang Airport on 13 March...
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    1960 New York mid-air collision (category Accidents and incidents involving the Lockheed Constellation)
    collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward LaGuardia Airport. The Constellation crashed on Miller Field in Staten...
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  • (252 m) flight deck of the carrier USS Hornet. As late as 1977, a Lockheed Constellation demonstrated its ability to use the 2,700-foot (820 m) runway of...
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    World War II, Douglas reworked it after the war to compete with the Lockheed Constellation in the long-range commercial transport market. Douglas built over...
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  • The Lockheed Model 44 Excalibur was a proposed American airliner designed by Lockheed. The Model 44 was the first four-engined design from the company...
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  • with ten on board. October 20 – In the 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster, a Lockheed Constellation named Nijmegen, flying from Schiphol Airport, Netherlands...
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