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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-89 / R6O/R6V Constitution
    Latest Model:R6V Constitution
    Last Military Serial:85163 USN
    Construction Number:85163
    Last Civil Registration:N7672C
    Compressed ID:Lockheed R6V sn 85163 USN cn 85163...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Displays Inc, Miami, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1946

    Constructed as a R6V.
    At the Lockheed plant in Burbank, California

    From 1946 to Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 85163.

    9 November 1946

    First flight.


    Photographer: Robert Reedy Collection

    1949


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: Lockheed XR6O-1 - Constitution - landing at Moffett Field in 1949.

    From 2 February 1949 to 1953

    Transferred to Delivered to Navy Transport Squadron 44 (VR-44), based, Naval Air Station Alameda,.

    1955

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Put into storage at NAS Litchfield Park, Arizona.

    May 1958

    To Air Displays Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N7672C (R6V, 85163).

    Moved to Las Vegas and operated as a billboard for Alamo Gas.


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: At Las Vegas

    1978

    Scrapped.

    15 October 2009

    Civil registration, N7672C, cancelled.
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