VH-EAN (2)
Lockheed
L-1049H-82-133 Super Constellation (c/n 1049H-4803)
The only shot of VH-EAN I have been able to
unearth is this long distance one from the Paul Zogg
collection.
Since the craft had been fitted with weather radar in the
above shot and since it was
converted to a freighter in October 1959 (which would obviate the need
for passenger steps) this
would place the
dating of this photo as 1958 or early 1959. Venue: Rome,
Ciampino? It was sold
back to
Lockheed in 1962 (traded in on an Electra II?) and became N7777C.
It was leased to
Alaska Airlines
in 1964 and suffered an undercarriage failure at Kotzebuie in April
1967 resulting in
its being
withdrawn from service . It wound up as a bar and
restaurant in the 1970s until finally
broken up in
September 1980.