AUBURN — Operations at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport could save about $49,000 per year by taking over the lease for the hangar housing Lufthansa Technion’s Constellation project, councilors were told Monday. City Councilors were briefed on a plan to purchase the hangar from Nobility, LLC, which would pay off the contract, which has 14 years […]
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Maine men become PALS on flights to Boston hospital
Two Maine men undergoing identical heart treatment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have developed a friendship during occasional airplane trips to and from the hospital with Patient Airlift Services, a nonprofit group. Tim Dunham of Sumner and Peter Cashman of Winterport met on their first flight down to Boston together from the Auburn-Lewiston […]
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Poland senior’s artwork pays tribute to late friend
Alex Hebert, 18, wanted to do something special for her senior art project at Poland Regional High School. She wanted it to have meaning. With that in mind, she has spent the past couple of weeks constructing a replica of the Cessna 172 she took her first orientation flight, or “O” flight as she calls […]
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Museum offers second chance to see plane project
LEWISTON — Museum L-A is offering a second chance to see the Lockheed “Super Star” reconstruction project at the Auburn-Lewiston Airport with behind-the-scenes tours on Saturday, Nov. 12. Participants will sign up for a tour that leaves the museum at 9:30 a.m. or 10:30 a.m. Available spaces are limited due to a waiting list from […]
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Restoring the Super Constellations
One of the last missions of the Lockheed L-1649A Starliner, which now sits stripped bare in a hangar at the Auburn-Lewiston Airport, was to transport cattle. Its final flight, in the early 1980s, was its arrival in Auburn from Florida. Only 44 Starliners were built, between 1956 and 1958, and were the cream of the […]
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On into the starry past of air travel
In their heyday, Lockheed Martin Super Constellation “Starliners” operated by Lufthansa could shuttle 30 people on the world’s longest airplane ride: 23 hours and 19 minutes, from London to San Francisco. Privileged passengers lounged in luxury aboard these “Super Stars,” and could cloister behind curtained beds while enjoying the latest in-flight entertainment: recorded music, played […]
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Big effort for prized planes
AUBURN – One of those antique planes that sat beside the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport for 20 years is a piece of German history. The particular plane, known simply as “N974R,” once served as West Germany’s equivalent to America’s Air Force One. So it’s little wonder that a foundation funded by Germany’s Lufthansa airline – “Lufthansa […]
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German company has plan to save ‘Connies’
AUBURN – At least one of the vintage Lockheed Constellation Starliners – 50-year-old planes parked outside the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport for more than two decades – may fly again. And it could lift the local airport with it. The airport has reached a tentative deal with a subsidiary of the airline Lufthansa to build a […]