capitolair

4 photos tagged capitolair, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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1961

2012

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Nacho P0P said:
Lockheed Super Constelllation
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Nacho P0P Thank you! Have added that to our tags for this photo.
G.Y.C. said:
WOW! Super Constelllation!!!
guliolopez said:
Wayhay - aircraft! (Thanks Carol). As noted, this is a Lockheed Super Constellation. Given the number (16C) on the forward undercarriage, this was very likely N9716C, a Lockheed Super Constelllation L-1049E with c/n 4545. Starting out as a Qantas aircraft in the 1950s, it was leased (and later bought) by Capitol International Airlines (CL) in the early 1960s. It was retired in the late-1960s/early-1970s. As with other Capitol Lockheed's this was probably on it's way through SNN on a run from the US to Germany.
derangedlemur said:
Looks like we've found guliolopez's hobby.

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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
This is one of my favourite airplanes! I cycled out to Shannon or even Rineanna especially to see them way back in the 1950's!
derangedlemur said:
Looks familiar: www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/9310766571/
Sharon Corbet said:
Is Shannon Airport not in Co. Clare?
derangedlemur said:
Sharon Corbet The NLI has a proud history of treating all counties on the western seabord (in fact, more or less anywhere outside the Pale) pretty much interchangeably.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
derangedlemur Sharon Corbet As a Limerick native who has heard my fellow citizens claim Shannon on more than one occasion only to be shot down in flames by irate Clare men and women I was waiting for that! Shannon is of course in Co. Clare. The plane is a Super Constellation and I always considered it the most beautiful and elegant of the airliners!

Sandydog1 said:
(SAN), San Diego International Airport, Lindbergh Field; DC-8-63F
TVL1970 said:
This aircraft would crash (registered as N827AX for Airborne Express) while conducting a post-maintenance test flight with the loss of all six souls aboard in December 1996. aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19961222-0