Former C-121C by USAF, this Super Constellation visited Meiringen that day for some passenger flights. Still there this weekend because of lost tire later on.
Built as a C-121C for the USAF, c/n 4175. It went zu MATS at 1st of november 1956, later in 1962 it came to Mississippi Air National Guard’s. It also flew as N73544 and since 2007 the registration is HB-RSC, called Star of Switzerland.
This Connie was saved from the breakers by the Pima Museum. It is now fated to go to another museum at Chino, California and will hopefully be preserved there.
Only one EC-121T on the ramp. The others might be in the hangar for maintenance or on patrol over the long reaches of the North Atlantic. Here only five months are left of the EC-121T time in Iceland.
Taken from the top of hangar 885, the largest on the base and for a long time the resident hangar for the AEW units and the rescue units, both helicopters and tankers, plus the tankers deployed to support the 57th FIS with their F-4s and F-15s.
One of two EC-121s that I photographed from the roof of hangar 885 which now seems only fit for tearing down for steel reclamation. If so, it will be a big landmark removal on the field.
To my knowledge, there were only three of the EC-121Ts still with the upper radome in service with the 79th AEW&CS during the last year of service in Iceland, 307, 424 and 425.