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In 1946, Panair received the first Lockheed Constellation 049,being the first airline outside theUnited States to operate this aircraft.The first Brazilian transatlantic flight took offon April 27, 1946, from Rio de Janeiro,bound for Recife, Dakar, Lisbon, Paris and London.Panair was also the irst international airline to land (on April 12) at London Heathrow Airport, which officially opened for commercial operation on May, 31, 1946.