L-1049 Constellation Eastern Airlines * * SALE ITEMS * * high-quality CH-53A/D Sea Stallion display

high-quality CH-53A/D Sea Stallion display model

Korean war experience revealed an urgent USAF need for a high-performance jet-powered night-intruder aircraft capable of precise nighttime and bad-weather weapons delivery on moving targets located hundreds of miles from home base

Length 13 7/8 inches

It operated daily flights to Honolulu

Lockheed was contracted for a prototype conversion

L-1049 Constellation Eastern Airlines * * SALE ITEMS * * high-quality CH-53A/D Sea Stallion displayEastern Airlines Constellation airplane model. The first Constellation was certified for civil operations on December 11, 1945, the aircraft entering service first with Pan Am and TWA, the latter inaugurating a regular US Paris service on February 6, 1946. By the end of 1949 the demand for air travel was increasing and operators were then looking for airplanes of greater capacity. This brought development of the L 1049 Super Constellation, with the