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| Looking very forlorn in the high weeds at the Lisbon Airport in June 1975 (Chris Mak) | Cockpit section and landing gear on display at the TAP Museum in Lisbon, Portugal (via José Vilhena) |
- Final registration - 5T-TAK
- Delivered to Lufthansa March 1956 as L1049G D-ALEC
- Converted 1963 to 86-seat configuration for domestic tourist flights
- Sold Hank Warton (North American Aircraft Trading Co) March 1968
- Registered 5T-TAK (fictitious) and used on Biafran airlift
- Also registered N8025 (fictitious) July to September 1968
- Flown to Lisbon, Portugal September 1968 and abandoned
- Stored Lisbon in deteriorating condition until broken up early 1981
- Retired TAP captain, Silva Pereira, "saved" cockpit section and landing gear
- Missing cockpit components salvaged at Santo Domingo from retired Dominicana de Aviacion Super Constellations
- Cockpit section and landing gear restored and currently on display at TAP Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
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