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| Pictured at Wright Patterson AFB, OH on September 6, 1965. At that time, the aircraft was designated a JC-121C (Richard Sullivan) | Scrapped at DM AFB in the early 1980's, its a mystery how this cockpit wound up on display at Frankfurt Intl Airport (Marc Lehmann) | Cockpit arriving at its new home at the Finnish Aviation Museum in Helsinki, Finland on July 18, 2007 (Antti Hyvärinen) |
- Final registration - 54-160
- Delivered to USAF MATS Atlantic Division October 1955 as C-121C 54-160
- To Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) May 1963
- Converted to JC-121C for AFSC-ASD, Wright-Patterson AFB by July 1963
- Conversion involved the addition of dorsal and ventral radomes
- Converted to DC-121C by May 1969 with addition of a gondola under the center fuselage
- Retired and flown to Davis Monthan AFB for storage July 1971
- Offer for sale at Davis Monthan October 1974
- To Allied Aircraft Sales February 1975 and still at scrapyard in 1981
- Scrapped by Oct 1982 only with only cockpit section remaining
- Cockpit section reportedly sold to a German vintage aircraft collector in 1984
- By 2003, cockpit section on display at Frankfurt International Airport, Germany
- Cockpit section removed from display for a short time due to terminal reconstruction.
- By March 2005, cockpit back in Terminal 2 near the aircraft model display cases
- Airport authority wants cockpit removed and reportedly offered for sale for 7,500 Euros in February 2007
- Purchased by Antti Hyvärinen and arrived at the Finnish Aviation Museum in Helsinki for display on July 17, 2007
- Due to space constraints, cockpit moved to the Finnair training center near the Helsinki Airport in November 2007
- Moved into Antti Hyvärinen's garage behind his home in Järvenpää, Finland on Febuary 21, 2009
- Moved to Antti's new home in Nukari, Finland in November 2012
- Extant in August 2019
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