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Avion lockheed l1049 g – super constellation f-bgnj

Amicale du Super Constellation, route de Frémiou, 44860 Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu
  • Loire-Atlantique
  • Pays de la Loire

1953 Lockheed L1049 G Super Constellation F-BGNJ

Guided tour of the Lockheed L1049 G Super Constellation F-BGNJ aircraft on the NANTES airport platform
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© Amicale du Super Constellation - Alain Rabiller

Under registration F-BGNJ, the Super Constellation No. 4519, type L-1049 C, was delivered to Air France on November 2, 1953. He is now the only survivor of the 24 aircraft purchased by the French Company at Lockheed. Put into commercial service on November 15, 1953, it opens the most prestigious lines: the BGNJ criss-crosses the world transporting the greatest celebrities of the time from Paris to Buenos Aires, from New York to Paris, or flying over Pointe à Pitre, PNOM Penh, Caracas, Tokyo… In 1956, it was modified to L-1049 G. It was on August 8, 1967, after 24,284 hours of flying under its colours, that it was disbanded from the Air France fleet. It then briefly bears the Spanish registration EC-BEN, before being acquired in 1968 by the company Air Fret. It then took the registration F-BRAD and was subsequently used by Air France crews to carry out medical evacuations in Biafra, the origin of the association «Aviation Sans Frontières» which was born 10 years later. The Lockheed Super Constellation F-BRAD 1049-G landed in Nantes for the last time in 1974. He narrowly escaped a reinforcement reserved for him and was bought by Mr. GABORIT, a private individual who maintained him for several years with little means to show him to the public on the parking lot of the terminal. In 1999, it was acquired by the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de l'Aéroport Nantes-Atlantique and entrusted to our association for its restoration.

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Avion lockheed l1049 g – super constellation f-bgnj
Amicale du Super Constellation, route de Frémiou, 44860 Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu
  • Loire-Atlantique
  • Pays de la Loire
The Lockheed Super Constellation is considered the most elegant civilian transport aircraft ever built. This transatlantic aircraft is associated with the post-war development of air communications. The arrival on the lines of the jets, in the early sixties, will put an end to fifteen years of undisputed rule. Of the 513 copies built, only two remain in France and about 20 in the rest of the world, only half of them being preserved under correct conditions. There are still two in Germany and one in flight condition in Switzerland. Outside Europe, two aircraft are still flying in the United States, one in Australia. The aircraft kept in Nantes is complete, both in terms of the airframe and the engine and its fittings, which makes it an exceptional element. Put into service by Air France in 1953 under the registration F-BGNJ, the Super Constellation of Nantes was assigned to the lines Paris-New-York, Paris-Chicago, and Dakar-Rio de Janeiro. It bears witness to the prestigious past of an
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Édifice industriel, scientifique et technique, Monument historique