Which Super Constellation ended up as a hotel convention center?

The CF-TGE, construction number 4544, is a Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation, the version Lockheed fitted with more powerful Turbo-Compound engines to solve a limitation of its predecessors: the L-1049C and L-1049E often couldn't fly nonstop from Europe to New York against headwinds. The G could carry between 71 and 95 passengers. This example entered service with Trans-Canada Air Lines, the future Air Canada, in 1954; the Canadian carrier is among the Constellation's historic operators, alongside TWA, Eastern, Pan American, Air France, BOAC and KLM. It later passed to World Wide Airways and by 1965 was already retired in Montreal.

Like other retired piston-engine airliners, the CF-TGE found a second life on the ground. It was first converted into a bar and restaurant on the outskirts of Montreal. It was later sold and moved to Toronto, where the Regal Constellation hotel used it as a convention facility, a use that fit the establishment's own name. It was sold again and ended up stored at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Its final destination was the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, which acquired it and had it restored in Rome, New York, before moving it. Today it's displayed wearing the markings it carried at Trans-Canada Air Lines. It's one of the Super Constellations preserved in North America and an example of how several retired Constellations survived thanks to such unaviation-like uses as a bar or a convention hall.