4Kᵁᴴᴰ Connie HB-RSC Super Constellation will never fly again !!! Original footage of this Icon .

Описание: Connie HB-RSC Super Constellation will never fly again !!!
Original 4K UHD footage of this Icon .
Filmed in 2014-2015 (Payerne & Sanicole) with 4K Sony FDR-AX1

Camera :Marc Talloen
on Board camera : Ghislain Rammelaere
History of the Plane :
Current registration HB-RSC
• Delivered to USAF MATS Atlantic Division November 1955 as
C-121C 54-156
• To Mississippi ANG October 1962
• To West Virginia ANG March 1967
• Retired and stored at Davis Monthan AFB by April 1972
• To Smithsonian NASM June 1972
• To Aviation Specialties Inc August 17, 1972 in exchange for Boeing
S307 Stratoliner N19903 and ferried to Mesa Falcon Field
• Sold to Aircraft Specialties March 1973 and registered N73544
• Modified as agricultural sprayer April 1973
• Restricted C of A issued April 27, 1973 and in service May 1973 as
sprayer
• Stored at Mesa, AZ 1976 to November 1978
• Airworthy at Goodyear, AZ 1979 and flown to Chandler Memorial
Airport, AZ early 1980
• To Globe Air Inc February 1981
• To Benny Younesi and Mehrdad Khoramian January 1982
• Leased to Classic Air, Van Nuys December 1982 for a sightseeing flight
venture which never materialized
• Ferried to Chino, CA March 11, 1983
• Ferried to Camarillo, CA January 15, 1984, arriving with the #4 engine
shut down and propeller feathered
• Younesi and Khoramian planned to restore aircraft and have it join
N4247K hauling tuna fish between Palau Island and Nogoya, Japan
• Work progressed slowly until January 1988 when N4247K was
impounded in Manila, Philippines
• Registered solely to Mehrdad Khoramian in March 1988 and sold to
Benny Younesi in February 1992
• Constellation Historical Society (CHS) formed in 1992 to restore the
aircraft
• Restored at Camarillo 1992 to 1994
• First post-restoration flight made June 23, 1994 with first airshow
appearance at NAS Point Magu September 24, 1994
• Flew on airshow circuit in western US
• FAA grounded aircraft mid-2001 for maintenance irregularities
• Advertised for sale on e-Bay January 2002 with a reserve price of
$750,000
• Reported offer of $600,000 rejected by owner, Benny Younesi
• CHS and Super Constellation Flyers Association (SCFA) signed a
lease-purchase agreement on December 17, 2003
• Departed Camarillo April 26, 2004 for Basel-Mulhouse Airport,
Switzerland where it arrived safely May 8, 2004
• Joint operation of aircraft by CHS/SCFA for five years after which
SCFA could purchase the aircraft
• Purchased by the SCFA April 2007 and re-registered HB-RSC
• Based at Basel, Switzerland and flown on the European airshow circuit
until grounded by wing corrosion issues in January 2010
• Repair costs were upwards of $600K and were completed in April
2011, when the aircraft was repainted before rejoining
the airshow circuit.
• Failure of the #2 engine forced cancelation of the 2012 airshow season
• Mechanical issues forced cancelation of 2017 and 2018
airshow seasons
• Breitling canceled most aviation sponsorships in 2018,
including the Super Constellation
• Faced with a CHF 20 million repair bill and additional FOCA mandated
flight restrictions, the SCFA Board of Directors decided in late
April 2019 to disband the organization
• In an email was send to members April 28, 2019 informing
them of this decision
• Aircraft sold to German investment group July 1, 2019
with the goal of restoring airworthiness of aircraft
• Meirer Motors is spearheading the project and
aircraft being disassembled in August/September 2019
• Moved by road to Eschbach-Bremgarten in
southwestern Germany on November 27, 2019
• Advertised for sale April 2023



THE HB-RSC super Constellation will never fly again!

Here are the facts known today at first hand:
1) it can no longer be immatriculated, the pilots no longer have licenses, training and instructors for it no longer exist, the aircraft would also have to be redeemed.
2) no office in Europe or Switzerland will issue a permit to fly for the aircraft. The times of big oldtimers with passengers are over in Europe!
3) without passengers there could be no flight operations anyway, the operating costs of about 30 000 Euro per flight hour are too high.
4) the personnel for maintenance (about 100 hrs maintenance per flight hour) is missing. These licenses have also expired.
5) sale or scrapping is imminent.
6) Glimmer of hope:
It would need a person who knows about crowfounding and would launch this.
7) For about 1.3 million Euros, the Connie could be bought back and transported to Dole in France to be assembled and displayed by volunteers at Aero Passion. Thus the Connie would be preserved in one piece for future generations.
everything else is unrealistic! Unfortunately!