JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Seventy years ago, Jacksonville experienced its first commercial airline disaster that claimed the lives ...

On this day in aviation history, January 9, 1943, a large four engine transport aircraft with three tail fins rose from the runway at Burbank Airport, California. This was the Lockheed Constellation, ...

Academy Award-winning actor John Travolta has long had a thing for Kansas City’s ‘Connie.’ A 1959 Lockheed Super-G Constellation aircraft, its distinctive triple-tail and dolphin nose have been a ...

I visited the HARS Aviation Museum in Australia and shared my experience of flying on the world’s last airworthy Lockheed “Connie” Constellation. It was really something different from yesteryear’s ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, March 20, 1962. It is republished unedited in its original form. (EDITOR’S NOTE: Air Force S/Sgt. Robert G. Fisher, Pacific , ...