One of the last missions of the Lockheed L-1649A Starliner, which now sits stripped bare in a hangar at the Auburn-Lewiston Airport, was to transport cattle. Its final flight, in the early 1980s, was its arrival in Auburn from Florida. Only 44 Starliners were built, between 1956 and 1958, and were the cream of the […]
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On into the starry past of air travel
In their heyday, Lockheed Martin Super Constellation “Starliners” operated by Lufthansa could shuttle 30 people on the world’s longest airplane ride: 23 hours and 19 minutes, from London to San Francisco. Privileged passengers lounged in luxury aboard these “Super Stars,” and could cloister behind curtained beds while enjoying the latest in-flight entertainment: recorded music, played […]
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Big effort for prized planes
AUBURN – One of those antique planes that sat beside the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport for 20 years is a piece of German history. The particular plane, known simply as “N974R,” once served as West Germany’s equivalent to America’s Air Force One. So it’s little wonder that a foundation funded by Germany’s Lufthansa airline – “Lufthansa […]
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German company has plan to save ‘Connies’
AUBURN – At least one of the vintage Lockheed Constellation Starliners – 50-year-old planes parked outside the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport for more than two decades – may fly again. And it could lift the local airport with it. The airport has reached a tentative deal with a subsidiary of the airline Lufthansa to build a […]