Lockheed EC-121 Constellation (N73544)

Lockheed C-121C N73544 at the Gila River Indian Reservation Memorial Airport on December 30, 1981. Its Lockheed construction number is 4175. It was delivered to the Air Force as 54-0156 on November 1, 1955. The Smithsonian Institute acquired it from storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona in June 1972 in order to trade it to Aviation Specialties for the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, N19903 Clipper Flying Cloud. Aviation Specialties registered it as N73544 in March 1973 and retired it in 1976. Globe Air Inc. bought it in February 1981 and sold it to Mehrdad Khoramian in December 1982. It was registered to Daryoush Younesi at Tarzana in 1992. It spent several years based at Camarillo,California. It has been exported to Switzerland by the Swiss Super Constellation Group. It departed from the Camarillo Airport on April 26, 2004. It flew as the Breitling Super Constellation HB-RSC, but Breitling withdrew their sponsorship. It has not flown for some time. The Super Constellation Flyers Association hopes to have it back in the air next year.