List of Lockheed Constellation operators explained

The Lockheed Constellation was used by dozens of airlines and militaries around the world. In military service, the Navy/Air Force EC-121 Warning Star variant remained operational until 1978, nearly 40 years after work on the L-049 began.

♠ Original operators

Commercial

Lockheed built 856 planes. Civilian airlines that operated the Constellation included:

• Aerolíneas Carreras
• Aerotransportes Entre Ríos - AER
• Trans Atlántica Argentina
• Transcontinental ♠

• Qantas ♠

• Aero Transport

• Sabena

• Panair do Brasil
• Real Transportes Aéreos ♠
• Varig ♠

Canada

• Nordair ♠
• Trans Canada Airlines ♠ (Now Air Canada)

• Air Ceylon

Chile

• Transportes Aéreos Squella

(Taiwan)

• China Airlines

• Avianca ♠
• LANZA

• Cubana de Aviación ♠

• Aerolineas Mundo S.A.-AMSA
• Aerotours Dominicana
• Aerovías Quisqueyana

• Air France ♠
• CATAIR - Compagnie d'Affretements et de Transports Aeriens

• Lufthansa ♠

Haiti

• Air Haiti International

• Air India ♠

• Aer Lingus ♠

• El Al ♠

• Air Afrique

• Korean National Airlines (Now Korean Air)

Luxembourg

• Luxair

• Aeronaves de México (Now Aeromexico)
• Aerovias Guest ♠

Morocco

• Royal Air Maroc

Netherlands

• KLM ♠

• Pakistan International Airlines

Panama

• AFISA - Aero Fletes Internacionales SA
• Líneas Aéreas de Panama

Paraguay

• Lloyd Aéreo Paraguayo

Peru

• LANSA
• Perú Internacional - COPISA
• Trans-Peruana

• Transportes Aéreos Portugueses (TAP) ♠

Senegal

• Government of Senegal

South Africa

• South African Airways ♠
• Trek Airways

• Iberia ♠

Thailand

• Thai Airways Company ♠

• ACE Freighters
• British Overseas Airways Corporation
• Britannia Airways
• Euravia
• Falcon Airways
• Trans European Aviation
• Skyways of London
• Universal Sky Tours

• Alaska Airlines
• American Airlines
• American Overseas Airlines ♠ (7 x L-049)
• Braniff International Airways
• California Central Airlines
• Capital Airlines
• Central American Airlines
• Chicago and Southern Air Lines ♠
• Delta Air Lines
• Eastern Air Lines ♠
• Federal Aviation Administration
• Flying Tiger Line ♠
• Great Lakes Airlines
• Imperial Airlines
• Intercontinent Airways
• Miami Airlines
• Modern Air Transport
• NASA
• National Airlines ♠ (4 x L-1049H)
• Northwest Orient Airlines
• Pacific Air Transport
• Pacific Northern Airlines
• Pan American World Airways ♠
• Paradise Airlines (intrastate carrier in California)
• Regina Cargo Airlines
• Resort Airlines ♠
• Seaboard & Western Airlines ♠ (4 x L-1049D, 5 x L-1049H)
• Seaboard World Airlines
• Slick Airways ♠
• South Pacific Air Lines^[1]
• Trans World Airlines ♠ (launch operator)
• United States Airways
• Western Airlines
• Wien Air Alaska

Uruguay

• Aerolíneas Uruguayas
• Compañía Aeronáutica Uruguaya (CAUSA)

• Linea Aeropostal Venezolana (LAV) ♠

Military operators

• French Air Force

• Indian Air Force

• Indian Navy

• Indonesian Air Force

• Israeli Air Force

• United States Air Force ♠

• United States Navy ♠

Notes and References

1. Web site: South Pacific Air Lines - SPAL .