{"id":263970,"date":"2025-08-09T00:47:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lufthansa-l-1649a-super-star-restored\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:47:21","slug":"lufthansa-restores-vintage-lockheed-l-1649a-starliner-for-100th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=263970","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa Restores Vintage Lockheed L-1649A Starliner For 100th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa is a key player on the transatlantic corridor between<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"16447\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/europe\/\"  >Europe<\/a><\/span> and North America, with the German flag carrier&#8217;s widebody twinjets and quadjets making countless crossings every day. Earlier in its history, the makeup of its transatlantic operations was rather different, in that it relied on piston-engined planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa has completed the restoration of an iconic Lockheed L-1649A Starliner piston-engined aircraft for its 100th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,120,82,408,1624,734],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-germany","category-history","category-lockheed","category-lufthansa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263971,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263970\/revisions\/263971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}