Which Constellation was a children's attraction at Asunción airport?

The aircraft is a Lockheed L-049, the first civilian version of the Constellation, which TWA began receiving on October 1, 1945, when aircraft being built as C-69 military transports were completed as airliners instead. With the L-049, TWA launched its transatlantic test flight from Washington D.C. on December 3, 1945, arriving in Paris the following day with stops in Gander (Newfoundland) and Shannon (Ireland), the usual stops for Atlantic crossings at the time. A few months later, in February 1946, the same airline officially opened the New York-Paris route. This particular example, with construction number 2071 and registration N86533, flew for the Dutch carrier KLM and the American Capital Airlines before ending its active life in South America.

Retired from service, the aircraft ended up converted into a recreational attraction for children at Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, where it was placed at the terminal entrance. It was one of many Constellations repurposed on the ground, like others that in Europe and the Americas ended up as restaurants, bars or leisure attractions.

This one didn't share that fate. Today it's on display at TAM's museum, Asas de um Sonho (Wings of a Dream), located at the airfield that TAM airline has in São Carlos, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. There it wears the colors of Panair do Brasil, which is among the model's great historic operators alongside TWA, Pan American, Air France, KLM and Avianca. From São Carlos, the former KLM and Capital aircraft today recalls the South American chapter of the Constellation fleet.