Where can you "fly" a Super Constellation cockpit near Zurich?

Of the Super Constellation registered by the Aerochago airline as HI-548CT, the whole aircraft no longer survives, but its cockpit does, preserved in the form of a simulator. It was built over several years of work by a member of the Swiss association that kept a Super Constellation flying, and today it can be visited and "flown" in a restaurant located near Zurich Airport. It is an unusual way to get close to the controls of a 1950s piston four-engine aircraft, with its gauges, throttle levers, and crew stations.

The Super Constellation Flyers Association, based in Basel, operated the only airworthy Super Constellation in Europe between 2004 and 2016, a former US Air Force C-121C that had previously belonged to the Constellation Historical Society of Camarillo, California. The association signed a lease-and-purchase agreement in 2003, brought the aircraft to Basel in May 2004, and registered it on the Swiss register as HB-RSC in May 2007, after flying with the US registration N73544. With it, it took its members to air shows and historic flights across most of Europe.

For a long time the aircraft was known as the "Breitling Super Constellation" after its main sponsor. In 2018 Breitling withdrew, and the aircraft was renamed "Star of Switzerland". It was later moved to Zurich, where it received a paint scheme that closely recalls that of Luxair's aircraft from the 1960s. Between the aircraft itself and the restaurant's simulator, the Zurich area holds much of Switzerland's Super Constellation memory.