PP-PCB Lockheed L-049
Constellation
(c/n 2048)
What magnificent machines the
original Lockhhed Constellations were! Panair do Brasil had no
less than
fifteen of them in 1946. All came from the mother company, Pan
American. This one
was formerly
N88848 "Clipper Golden Gate".
Panair renamed it "Domingos Alfonso
Sertao".
They were used on trans Atlantic routes from Rio to
Paris, London, Rome and even to Cairo and
Istanbul. PP-PCB was broken up in Rio in 1969.