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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-049-46 Constellation
    Construction Number:2081
    Last Civil Registration:N2520B
    Compressed ID:Lockheed L-049-46 cn 2081 cr N2520B...
    Latest Owner or Location:Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz (BO)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-049-46.
    Lockheed 49-46 2081

    Civil registration N90819 reserved but not taken up.
    Was reserved for TWA- Trans World Airlines.

    31 October 1946

    To Linea Aeropostal Venezolana S. A with new c/r YV-C-AME.

    From August 1955 to November 1960

    To Braniff International with new c/r N2520B.

    Circa 1956


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: Chicago Midway Airport - Braniff Airways - Lockheed Constellation - (c.1956) (N2520B) They were used mainly on local services from Dallas to Chicago.

    12 April 1961

    To Hubert M. Covert, Hialeah, FL keeping c/r N2520B.

    4 December 1970

    Civil registration, N2520B, cancelled.

    The aircraft was seized at Santa Cruz in July 1961 while on a smuggling flight and stored at the airport until being moved to the park in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in the early 1970s. Since that time it has been used as a library, painted in Pepsi colors and then painted in Aerosur Airlines colors and used as an office for a travel agent.

    Placed on display with Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz (BO).
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    19 September 1997


    Photographer: Andy Martin
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