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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-49/L-649/L-749/L-1049/L-1649/C-69 Constellation / C-121 Super Constellation / WV Warning Star / Starliner
    Latest Model:L-1649A-98 Starliner
    Construction Number:1040
    Last Civil Registration:N974R
    Compressed ID:Lockheed L-1649A-98 cn 1040 cr N974...
    Latest Owner or Location:Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a L-1649A.

    From 20 December 1957 to July 1960

    To Lufthansa with new c/r D-ALAN.
    Operated with markings: NECKAR

    Converted to a L-1649A-98.
    Converted to Freighter.

    From 3 July 1962 to 13 February 1964

    Leased to World Airways.

    From 22 February 1966 to 1 October 1967

    To Air Venturers of Houston with new c/r N179AV.

    3 March 1966

    Certificate of airworthiness for N974R (1649A-98, 1040) issued.

    June 1976

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Ft.Lauderdale, Florida.

    1980

    To Aeroborne Enterprises with new c/r N974R.

    1986

    To Maine Coast Airways Inc, Auburn, ME keeping c/r N974R.

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Sanford, Florida.

    19 October 2001

    Last flight.
    Successful thirty-minute ferry flight October 19, 2001 from Sanford to Kermit Weeks Fantasy of Flight Museum in Polk, FL.

    Circa 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: On display in Lufthansa livery at the Fantasy of Flight Museum Polk / FL

    1 January 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for N974R (1649A-98, 1040) issued.

    18 February 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2008 photo of Lockheed Constellation outside Fantasy of Flight Museum

    24 April 2008

    To Wells Fargo Bank Northwest Na Trustee, Salt Lake City, UT keeping c/r N974R.

    Based at Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
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    27 March 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Fantasy of Flight Museum, Polk City, FL

    16 July 2012

    To Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N974R.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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