Albion Park's Super Constellation - Connie - celebrates 60 years on earth in 2015

By Desirée Savage
Updated November 13 2015 - 5:04pm, first published 5:00pm
The vintage Super Constellation residing at the Illawarra Regional Airport, Albion Park, has turned 60. Pictures: Desiree Savage
TRAVEL IN STYLE: Engineer Jim Thurstan says Connie was from the days of "classy flying" where passengars would dress up to fly and wouldn't dare wear thongs: "It was expensive, but it was very flash." Picture: Desiree Savage
TRAVEL IN STYLE: Engineer Jim Thurstan says Connie was from the days of "classy flying" where passengars would dress up to fly and wouldn't dare wear thongs: "It was expensive, but it was very flash." Picture: Desiree Savage

A star was born in 1955, though nearly had her life cut short. After a life in the US military, “Connie” – a Super Constellation aircraft – was left on the scrap-heap in the middle of the Tuscon desert.

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