Connie Triple Tail Wood Print

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The three tails of a Lockheed Constellation. Serial number 48-613 was delivered to the US Air Force in January 1949 and operated within the Military Air Transport Service and was used during the Berlin Airlift. During the Korean War it served as a VIP transport for Douglas MacArthur's which he named 'Baatan.'

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