CF-TGE Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation
(c/n 4544)
My own shot of TCA's '405' at Vancouver Airport in April
1959. The aircraft was five years old at
the time.
It was sold in 1962 to Aircraft Radio Industries as N8742R but then
returned to Canada
in 1964 as
CF-RNR for Montreal Air Service. From there it went on lease to
World Wide Airways
and wound up in 1968 as a coffee shop and lounge in
Quebec City, PQ. It was then stored at
St. Marc, PQ until 1986
when it was renovated and preserved in Toronto. A recent
campaign to
allow it to go to a
museum in Seattle has met with resistance from historical groups
wanting it to
remain north of the
border.