Lockheed Constellation Survivors

N4257L c/n 4335

EC-121T July 2004 EC-121T N4257L April 19, 2004
52-3417 is seen at Homestead AFB, Florida in July 1974 while on its last duty assignment to the USAF Reserves (Steve Williams) Twenty-three years after being delivered to Helena, this veteran is still being used for the training of aspiring aircraft technicians (Michael Blank)
  • Final registration - N4257L
  • Delivered to USAF September 1954 as RC-121D 52-3417
  • Redesignated EC-121D 1962
  • Converted to EC-121T but upper radome not removed
  • To USAF Reserves at Homestead AFB, FL by July 1974
  • Retired and flown to Davis Monthan AFB for storage March 26, 1976
  • To Helena Vocational Tech Center, Helena, MT March 1981 as N4257L
  • Ferried to Helena, MT June 1981 with Frank Lang in command
  • Used for training at the Helena College of Technology's Department of Aviation Maintenance Technology...engines and systems were run in 2002


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