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| Displayed at the Pima Air and Space Museum from 1981-94, aircraft is pictured in January 1986 (RM Pettersen) |
Operated on the airshow circuit for a few years in the mid-90's, N548GF is shown landing at her home base of Camarillo, CA in October 1995 (Graham Robson) | Patiently awaiting her ferry flight at Camarillo Airport on August 7, 2009 (Terry Wall) |
- Current registration - N548GF
- Delivered to USAF August 1955 as RC-121D 53-548
- Redesignated EC-121D September 1963
- Redesignated EC-121D/T
- Redesignated EC-121T May 1970
- To USAF Reserves Homestead AFB March 1976
- Last Homestead EC-121T to be retired
- Retired and flown to Davis Monthan AFB for storage October 1978
- To Pima Air and Space Museum by September 1981
- Excess to needs of museum and sold to Wayne Jones/Global Aeronautical Foundation December 1994 as N548GF with AEW radar system intact
- Restored and ferried from Davis Monthan AFB to Tucson International Airport, AZ April 14, 1995
- Ferried Tucson to Camarillo, CA April 15, 1995
- Based at Camarillo and flown regularly on west coast airshow circuit in USAF markings 30548 until June 2000 when grounded due to corrosion in outer wing panels
- Wing tip tanks removed August 2001 and repairs made to corroded areas in accordance with applicable Lockheed manuals. The affected areas were not chemically milled ribs
- Wayne Jones passed away in June 2002
- For sale in Trade-A-Plane March 2002 ($595,000) and June 2002
- Aircraft stored Camarillo, CA in reasonable condition
- To Yanks Air Museum December 2005
- Aircraft restored to airworthy condition March thru May 2006
- FAA refused to issue a ferry permit citing concerns about the aircraft's airworthiness
- Yanks completed FAA mandated corrosion repairs in April 2007 but FAA has still not issued a ferry permit
- A Yanks crew labored most of the summer of 2009 cleaning up the aircraft and making necessary repairs in preparation of a ferry flight. Paperwork to allow ferry flight being prepared in November 2009
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