Today the aircraft is completely jacked up and is bereft of its landing gear, which is being overhauled in Lufthansa Technik’s landing gear shop in Hamburg. As you can see from the latest photograph, part of the fuselage outer skin has been removed to facilitate structural checks currently under way.

In November 2008, L-1649A with tail sign N7316C was still able to roll across the runway of Auburn Lewiston Airport to its maintenance hangar on its own landing gears. Before that, it had been standing outdoors for many years, on the private area of the former owner. Soon after the move into the hangar, maintenance work on the future only airworthy Lockheed L-1649A Super Star worldwide started under optimal conditions.

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