VH-EAF (1) Lockheed 749A
Constellation
(c/n 2504)
This was the former VH-CQS, delivered to Air
India in 1948. It was sold to Qantas in 1951.
The
above shot was taken when the aircraft was being used for a Royal Tour
in 1954. It was
sold to BOAC later that
same year as G-ANTF. It was leased to Transocean Airlines in
1958 as N9816F and then to Capitol Airways in 1959. When
that non-sked when out of
business BOAC repossessed it and leased it to ACE
Freighters It was eventually scrapped
at
Coventry's Baginton Airport in 1971.