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Lockheed stretched XC-69 by 18 ft (5.5 m), to become the basis for the L-1049 Super Constellation. The aircraft first flew later in 1950, still fitted with R-2800 engines. It was then fitted with R-3350 956-C18CA-1 engines with jet stacks for slightly increased thrust.
The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") is a propeller-driven, four-engined airliner built by Lockheed Corporation starting in 1943. The Constellation series was the first civil airliner family to enter widespread use equipped with a pressurized cabin, enabling it to fly well above most bad weather, thus significantly improving the general safety and ease of commercial passenger air travel.
The Lockheed L-1249 Super Constellation was a turboprop-powered version of the Lockheed Constellation aircraft family. Built in 1954 and 1955, the aircraft were used as prototypes for possible future military transport aircraft for both the United States Air Force and United States Navy.
The Lockheed Constellation was an American civil airliner and military transport built in the 1940s and 1950s; this is a list of its variants. Commercial transport
Super Constellation: Oct 13, 1950: Improved Constellation 1149: Super Constellation: Unbuilt Allison turboprop powered version of the model 1049 1249: Super Constellation: Sep 1, 1954: Experimental turboprop military transport version 1449: Super Constellation: Proposed stretched turbine powered version of model 1049 with larger wings 1549 ...
L-1049 Super Constellation The Lockheed L-1649 Starliner is the last model of the Lockheed Constellation line of airliners . Powered by four Wright R-3350 Turbo-compound engines , it was built at Lockheed 's Burbank, California plant from 1956 to 1958.
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Orders were placed totaling 142 PO-2W Constellations based on the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, with deliveries beginning in 1953. The PO-2W was redesignated WV-2 in 1954. In 1962, with standardization of aircraft designations within the Department of Defense, the WV-2 then became the EC-121K.