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[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h12m47s652RET.jpg|thumb|right|350px|none | <i>Air Adventure to Europe</i> screen title .]]
<b>Documentary (1954)</b><br>

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<b>Production:</b><br>
Kenneth Richter (Director and Photographer)<br>
Shirley Richter (Script)<br>
Bob Velazco (Editor)<br>
Emily Ann Mayer (Actress)<br>
Michael Lattyak (Actor)<br>
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[[Category:TWA's series]][[:Category:TWA's series|TWA's series]]

TWA presents ''Air Adventure to Europe'', a color film from the 1950s that takes its viewer to a quiet suburban American home as a young traveler receives her graduation gift from her parents: a trip to Paris. She boarded the Lockheed Constellation TWA “Star of Minnesota” and took off for a 47-day tour.

==  [[:Category: Lockheed Constellation| Lockheed L-749A Constellation]]  ==
The young traveler says ''..the plane with the name of my own state: Minnesota'', so might be at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Locations|Minneapolis-Saint Paul World-Chamberlain Field]],  Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP/KMSP) nowadays.<br>
Registration N6019C, c/n 2657. Delivered new to [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airline]] in January 1951, named ''819 Star of Minnesota''. Sold to Aero Tech Inc. in May 1968 then scrapped at Kansas City in August 1968.
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h13m40s138.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.N6019C Lockheed L-749A Constellation ''819 Star of Minnesota'' of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airline]].]]
Taking off. Note the [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|Trans World Airline]] title without 's' as it was just after change name from [[:Category: Transcontinental & Western Air|T&WA-Transcontinental & Western Air]] in 1950.
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h13m46s678.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.N6019C Lockheed L-749A Constellation ''819 Star of Minnesota'' of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airline]].]]
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h13m48s633.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.N6019C Lockheed L-749A Constellation ''819 Star of Minnesota'' of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airline]].]]
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h13m51s665.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.N6019C Lockheed L-749A Constellation ''819 Star of Minnesota'' of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airline]].]]
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h13m53s456.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.N6019C Lockheed L-749A Constellation ''819 Star of Minnesota'' of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airline]].]]

==  [[:Category: Lockheed Constellation| Lockheed L-749A Constellation]]  ==
In flight on route to Paris.<br>
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h12m47s652.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Lockheed L-749A Constellation of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airline]].]]
Above New-York harbour, as if a stopover had taken place on the flight to Paris.
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h14m00s643.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Lockheed L-749A Constellation of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airline]].]]
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h14m11s365.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Lockheed L-749A Constellation of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airline]].]]

==  [[:Category: Lockheed Constellation| Lockheed L-749A Constellation]]  ==
Taxiing at [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Locations|Aéroport de Paris-Orly]]. Continuity error, the plane changes to:<br>
Registration N6021C, c/n 2667. Delivered new to [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]] in April 1951, named ''821 Star of West Virginia''. Sold to Aero Tech Inc. in June 1968 then to Discover America Corp. in July 1968.Sold to Gulf Coast National Banko then Travis Leasing Inc. in July 1970. Sold to Unlimited Leasing Inc. in November 1970. Leased to Air Carga Inc. in April 1975. Leased to Inair Panama in September 1977. Leased to Aeromar in October 1978. Leased to Carib Airways Inc. in January 1979 then to Paramount Petroleum Corp. in October 1979. Leased to Transglobal Inc. in May 1980. Sold to Aero Chago in May 1983, registered HI-422. Written-off in a heavy landing at Santo Domingo in 1988. Broken up in 1991.
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h13m32s552.jpg|thumb|500px|none| Reg.N6021C Lockheed L-749A Constellation ''821 Star of West Virginia'' of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]].]]
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h13m37s595.jpg|thumb|500px|none| Reg.N6021C Lockheed L-749A Constellation ''821 Star of West Virginia'' of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]].]]
In front of [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Locations|Orly-Nord]] terminal.[See discussion tab (1)].<br>
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h14m19s411.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.N6021C Lockheed L-749A Constellation ''821 Star of West Virginia'' of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]].]]
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h14m26s633.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.N6021C Lockheed L-749A Constellation ''821 Star of West Virginia'' of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]].]]
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h14m28s973.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Reg.N6021C Lockheed L-749A Constellation ''821 Star of West Virginia'' of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]].]]

==  [[:Category: Lockheed Constellation| Lockheed L-749 Constellation]] & [[:Category: Vickers Viscount| Vickers 701 Viscount]] ==
At [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Locations|Flughafen Zürich Kloten]]. [See discussion tab (2)].<br>
From left to right.
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h50m30s513.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Lockheed L-749 Constellation of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]] and Vickers Viscount of [[:Category: British European Airways|BEA-British European Airways]].]]
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h50m35s053.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Lockheed L-749 Constellation of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]] and Vickers Viscount of [[:Category: British European Airways|BEA-British European Airways]].]]
On route to London.
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h50m39s440.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Lockheed L-749 Constellation of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]].]]
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h50m45s473.jpg|thumb|500px|none|Lockheed L-749 Constellation of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]].]]

==  [[:Category: Lockheed Constellation| Lockheed L-749A Constellation]]  ==
Back in [[IMPDb: Frequently Seen Locations|Aéroport de Paris-Orly]] for return to the USA.<br>
Unreadable registration for this one wearing ''White top Jetstream (1952-1959)'' livery.
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h57m38s041.jpg|thumb|500px|none| Lockheed L-749A Constellation of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]].]]
[[Image: Vlcsnap-2024-10-12-09h58m10s453.jpg|thumb|500px|none| Lockheed L-749A Constellation of [[:Category: Trans World Airlines|TWA-Trans World Airlines]].]]

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== See also ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2WpRJycJpc&t=19s Air Adventure to Europe at YouTube]
* [https://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=1004524835 Air Adventure to Europe at IMCDb]

[[Category: Lockheed Constellation]]
[[Category: Vickers Viscount]]

[[Category: British European Airways]]
[[Category: Trans World Airlines]]