Malcolm Gow came across this Lockheed C-121C Constellation HB-RSC at Basle on 16Jun2014.

In June 2017 news was published that the Breitling Connie was to be grounded for the remainder of 2017. Due to finances. An action was started 'Save our Connie, the Breitling Super Constellation'.
superconstellation.org/index.php/en/news-en/674-2017-06-01

The on 03Jan2018: 'The Connie will fly again'.
'On 25No2017, the assembly of Connie owners approved the plans and decisions made by the SCFA board members, and unanimously voted in favor of all requests presented by the board.
The 2016/2017 annual report as well as the 2016/2017 annual financial statement were approved and authorized; additionally, the 2017/2018 budgetary plans were also authorized.
The association assembly has hereby laid the foundation for a thorough inspection of our «Grand Old Lady» during the coming winter months which will help get the Connie back to an airworthy status by the spring.
If all goes well, we expect the FOCA (Federal Office of Civil Aviation) to sign off on our work, and issue a «permit to fly» to HB-RSC." [superconstellation.org]
Hopeful!

See how I found this C-121 N73544 (c/n 4175) @Camarillo, in May 1997, go to my Colour slides from my archive.

Ron Mak wrote (webmaster's translation): 'This is on the Philippines, San Fernando is the nearest big town and there is a small airport nearby: La Union on the Luzon Sea; beautiful location, splendid beaches and magnificent scenery.
Check Google Earth, you'll be able to find Charlie's Surf Hostal and a 2nd DC-3 somewhat in ortherly direction nearby.
These 2 DC-3s probably originate from Manila's - Ninoy Aquino International; they are cleaning up the long-term stored (derelict) propliners, as with the recently moved Constellation (gone to HARS).
Many of the direlict wrecks seem to have disappeared without trace.
One can find a few ex/ Cebu Pacific DC-9s in and around the centre of Manila City, in parks and along roads. Left behind and abandoned. Even an Antonov An-24 somewhere...

My gallery Off-Airport Asia has the identities of DC-3 here involved at Charlie's Hostel.

On www.flickr.com I found a photo for the date 28Apr2019. Looking good!

Finally we have some more information on the destiny of the C-119 stored at Battle Mountain,NV !
This is about Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar N5216R, see my page Battle Mountain,NV

I have to thank 'JoeJoe' Prince for making me aware of this noteworthy news!

From www.adn.com/opinions/2018/02/11/theyre-making-a-flying-boxcar-into-a-mobile-coffee-shop...
"It started, like so many unlikely tales, with two bored guys sitting in a vehicle.
John Will and Jim Morris run aircraft de-icing equipment, but on this day there was no ice, so they were driving around the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport looking at airplanes, especially an old military cargo plane called a
C-119 Flying Boxcar.
It's a humble craft—a big, bulbous rectangle with wings on top—built to carry vehicles, troops or guns, and retired by the Air Force more than 40 years ago.

Morris said, "Wouldn't that make a great party bus?"
It was a random comment, but Will said it made his head explode. This had to be done.
Why?
I got a variety of answers to that question.
"It's about the only plane you can do it with," Morris explained. "Most planes are round."
"I like building weird things," Will said. "I'm itching to get on this."
Morris explained that the driver's seat would be in the restored cockpit, high above the road."
end/. quote

For the plan and its progress see rollingboxcar.com

John Will clarified the project to me (March 2018): "It will not be used to spice up a new coffee shop. It will be a mobile venue where Veterans can explore military history, connect with each other, and be recognized for their contributions through art and memorabilia.
We are a non-profit and we will be donating to other Alaska based veteran organizations that need support."

In Sep.2018 John confirmed ""We are still on track with the project. We have been doing fund raisers and getting the word out.
We are currently waiting on some paperwork from the Government to clear the title for us and you know how long it takes Uncle Sam to do anything, but should be any day now.
We are going to be telling the story and fashioning the fuselage after Gamble Chalk One, a C-119 (51-2560) that crashed up here in 1952 with 5 airmen and 14 soldiers on board. They just found the wreckage and will be doing a lot of work there in the coming years to exhume all the bodies that are still there and give them a proper burial."

Several people made me aware in Feb.2019 that this C-119 was offered online for sale again...
This is a former Forest Service Aircraft that was a part of a museum in Battle Mountain, but which has been closed for
a number of years. A purchase is complicatedbecause, according to the advertisement, a 'bill of sale' cannot be provided.
gsaauctions.gov/
This advert did include a few photos of the interior.

C-119 N5216R at Battle Mountain offered for sale again, time running out..

Andy Mac sent me this photo, EXIF data shows 28Jan18.

Douglas C-47 N8061A (c/n 6085).

Andy wrote: "A but scruffy but flying nevertheless, making a fuel stop at Lincoln, NE while heading north to Ohio."
Tom Singfield caught N8061A at its homebase in 2015: Photos by Friends & Guests #43

Roger Janssens wrote me 23Feb2018 to set the record straight here:
"N8061A was in Lincoln,NE is because it was on its way to its final resting place: Spanish Fork Airport Springville-Woodhouse Field, Spanish Fork in Uah (KSPK); its final flight was on 29Jan2018 and it will be dismantled to become part of a children's playground."
Source: mwithakaviation.blogspot.nl/2018/01/gallery-update-being-witness-for-sunset.html

Roger continued: "N8061A had already been with Preferred Airparts LLC at Kidron, OH, since at least 13Apr2017, when I first photographed it there.
I photographed it there again on 01Aug2017 – see the attached photo."

N8061A at Kidron,OH - photo by Roger Janssens

"This photo also shows some other C-47s/DC-3s: to the left: N3BA (sadly by now devoid of paint) -to the right, from the front to the rear: N566PT (ex N50CM), N562PT (ex N81907), N192RD (by now reregistered to N563PT), N332RD (by now reregistered to N564PT) and N193RD (by now reregistered to N565PT).
Not visible on this photo, but also present, were: N403JB, N467KS, N882TP, the fuselage of N834TP, and the fuselage (sans cockpit) of XA-RPE.
In addition, two C-47s/DC-3s were under major overhaul, but I wasn’t allowed to go near them... They may have been N560PT and N561PT."

Bought by ABX Holding 09Feb19; we may see a new lease of life, not sure if it was converted to Turbo engines.

Ref N882TP UPDATE 09-2024: "This Turbo DC-3 is currently based in Angola. The airplane departs Luanda every morning around 9 am, to return between 5 and 6 pm.
Parking and handling takes place on the ramp of the domestic terminal.
The FR24 data track stops just outside the urban area of Luanda, so I am not sure what its destination is, nor what the purpose is of the operation. Looking at previous locations where this airplane has been seen flying, places like the Canadian Arctic and Indonesian Borneo, my guess would be that it is oil related."
[¬ www.airhistory.net/photo/729441/N882TP]

Douglas DC-6 N12347 (c/n 44071/401) by Jim Thompson shows a nice winterscene in northern Alaska.

N12347 was moved in 2003 and, alas, the owner seems to have made little progress to convert it to his 'man cave'..?
I recorded it on film in 1995 and on that page you'll find a 1991 photo as well.
See also my gallery of Aircraft Off-Airport

Last time I was in Alaska in 2012, but I did not make it to this one; next time!!!

Previous identities of c/n 22595: 44-78772 - N67996 - N614Z - CF-ZQX. Operators such as USAAF, Flying Tigers, Zantop / Universal Airlines, Aerodyne, Trans Arctic (Fairbanks,AK), Ilford-Riverton Airways (Canada), May74 bt Fairbanks Air Service (March'76 renamed Great Northern A/L, rr N800FA).
Damaged on 17Mar75 while landing at a frozen lake 100 mls SE of Barrow,AK. But repaired & bt Coffe Point Fish Co. for US$65000,-. In Apr84 bt Atone Air Inc, El Paso,TX. Probly seized for smuggling, 10dec87.
Preserved at Smithsonian Museum Store, Geneseo NY in the 1990s (acquired 31Aug88).
On loan to National Warplane Museum (Elmira,NY) by April 2000, transported by truck to Elmira and reassembled (parked on ramp until summer of 2002) . Failed to restore to airworthiness, due lack of sufficient funding.
The loan of N800FA was transferred to the Glen H. Curtiss Museum, the actual move was in July 2002, but it took until Sep. 2003 for all permits for display in front of museum to be in order.
Last I heard was a process of deaccessing N800FA to the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum (2005?).

Want to see the badge that has been erased on the tail? Check m.aerialvisuals.ca Also more photos & details there.

You might like to browse the C-46 Census (worldwide!) on www.oldprops.ukhome.net

You'll find a 2018 photo of this Curtiss C-46 on Ken Swartz' gallery here, now repainted to a WW2 camo scheme and serial 4478772 painted on.