The TWA Starliner at JFK with the Retro terminal

Wide angle shot from the lounge in the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport. What a super cool place this is !! They have a hotel lobby and lounge that is like the terminal was in the 1950/60s.

K25 slide scan. Both Starliners N8083H (right) and N7316C (left) in front of then owner Maurice Roundys house.

K25 slide scan. Built for LAI as I-LIRA 1958. Not taken up but instead delivered to TWA as N8083H. Converted to freighter 1961. Alaska Airlines 1962, retired 1967. Converted to bulk fuel carrier 1968 for use on the North Slope by Red Dodge Aviation and Prudhoe Bay Oil Distribution, stored Anchorage 1972, Kenai 1974. Flown to CHandler, AZ 1981 and overhauled 1983. Used as drug runner, damaged in Colombia late 1983. Flown to San Pedro Sula 1983 and stored. Acquired by Maurice Roundy 1986 and flown to Auburn-Lewiston, ME. Acquired by Lufthansa Berlin Stiftung 2006 together with N974R and N7316C.

Survived with N7316C, parked at Auburn-Lewiston, Maine adjacent to owner Maurice Roundy's house. Flew with TWA from 1958, then acquired by Alaska Airlines as a freighter in 1962, passing through a number of hands from 1968, initially as a bulk oil carrier. Arrived here in 1986. Bought by Lufthansa at a bankruptcy auction in 2007 as part of a restoration project. Not then flyable due to wing corrosion and used as a spares source for N7613C. Refurbished for static display in original TWA colours. Currently in use as a cocktail bar at the TWA Hotel adjacent to the old TWA terminal at JFK Airport.

Slide taken in 1984 at La Mesa Airport. After a short stint transporting marijuana N8083H was left abandoned at San Pedro Sula from 1983 through 1986. Mr. Maurice Roundy acquired the a/c and ferried it back to Maine. This slide is enlarged quite a bit as I wasn't allowed to get very close to it by the Honduran security at the field.

Beautifully preserved outside recently opened TWA Hotel.

Gorgeous preservation at recently opened hotel in the former TWA terminal.

Aircraft has been used as a spares airplane for Lufthansa's restoration of N7316C. Carlos Gomez and a small crew are reassembling the aircraft for use as a cocktail lounge at TWA terminal hotel project at JFK Airport.

Aircraft has been used as a spares airplane for Lufthansa's restoration of N7316C. Carlos Gomez and a small crew are reassembling the aircraft for use as a cocktail lounge at TWA terminal hotel project at JFK Airport.

Lufthansa purchased all three of Maurice Roundy's Starliners at auction in December 2007. Aircraft was used as a source of spares for the restoration of N7316C. Will be restored and painted in period TWA colors as a cocktail lounge adjacent to the former TWA terminal at JFK Airport. The project, which includes a 500-room hotel, is scheduled for completion in March 2019.

Owned by Maurice Roundy, whose unique house can be seen in the background.

N7316C in the background

Missing her center vertical stabilizer, Starliner N8083H patiently awaits her fate, while her sister N7316C undergoes restoration inside the hangar in the background.

For obvious reasons, the flight engineer was a very important member of the crew!

Wonder what it was like spending 20+ hours in this cockpit during non-stop flights from Los Angeles to London in the late 1950's.