Restoring a Super G

re: "Mechanics at the Empire Aero Center (EAC), an MRO facility in Rome, NY, have worked on impressive planes before. But the small plane that arrived on June 8 looked like a metallic jigsaw puzzle. Never before have they faced the daunting task of reassembling a model, virtually from the ground up. /
Known as the Lockheed “Super Constellation,” this bonafide 53-year-old antique is so unique that its rediscovery has set the aviation world abuzz. It turned plenty of heads even before it arrived at EAC. Indeed, a plane carted along the back roads of rural northern New York and the Adirondack Mountains, starting in Toronto and arriving in a convoy of five flatbed trucks will stir the curiosity of lots of people..."...