HB-RSC c/n 4175

At Mesa Falcon Field where she was stored from 1976 to late 1978 (Steve Williams)	In quasi military titles while owned by Benny Younesi in 2001 (Michael S Prophet)	Sitting pretty in the California sun a few days before departing for Switzerland (RM Pettersen)

In her new Swiss regestration HB-RSC at Samaden, Switzerland in July 2007 (Propfreak)	Official rollout at Lahr, Germany in April 2011 after a 1+ year repair and restoration effort (Rainer Spoddig)	In flight over southern Germany in July 2011 (Dietmar Schreiber www.aviation-media.com)

• Current registration HB-RSC
• Delivered to USAF MATS Atlantic Division November 1955 as C-121C 54-156
• To Mississippi ANG October 1962
• To West Virginia ANG March 1967
• Retired and stored at Davis Monthan AFB by April 1972
• To Smithsonian NASM June 1972
• To Aviation Specialties Inc August 17, 1972 in exchange for Boeing S307 Stratoliner N19903 and ferried to Mesa Falcon Field
• Sold to Aircraft Specialties March 1973 and registered N73544
• Modified as agricultural sprayer April 1973
• Restricted C of A issued April 27, 1973 and in service May 1973 as sprayer
• Stored at Mesa, AZ 1976 to November 1978
• Airworthy at Goodyear, AZ 1979 and flown to Chandler Memorial Airport, AZ early 1980
• To Globe Air Inc February 1981
• To Benny Younesi and Mehrdad Khoramian January 1982
• Leased to Classic Air, Van Nuys December 1982 for a sightseeing flight venture which never materialized
• Ferried to Chino, CA March 11, 1983
• Ferried to Camarillo, CA January 15, 1984, arriving with the #4 engine shut down and propeller feathered
• Younesi and Khoramian planned to restore aircraft and have it join N4247K hauling tuna fish between Palau Island and Nogoya, Japan
• Work progressed slowly until January 1988 when N4247K was impounded in Manila, Philippines
• Registered solely to Mehrdad Khoramian in March 1988 and solely to Benny Younesi in February 1992
• Constellation Historical Society (CHS) formed in 1992 to restore the aircraft
• Restored at Camarillo 1992 to 1994
• First post-restoration flight made June 23, 1994 with first airshow appearance at NAS Point Magu September 24, 1994
• Flew on airshow circuit in western US
• FAA grounded aircraft mid-2001 for maintenance irregularities
• Advertised for sale on e-Bay January 2002 with a reserve price of $750,000
• Reported offer of $600,000 rejected by owner, Benny Younesi
• CHS and Super Constellation Flyers Association (SCFA) signed a lease-purchase agreement on December 17, 2003
• Departed Camarillo April 26, 2004 for Basel-Mulhouse Airport, Switzerland where it arrived safely May 8, 2004
• Joint operation of aircraft by CHS/SCFA for five years after which SCFA could purchase the aircraft
• Purchased by the SCFA April 2007 and re-registered HB-RSC
• Based at Basel, Switzerland and flown on the European airshow circuit until grounded by wing corrosion issues in January 2010
• Repair costs were upwards of $600K and were completed in April 2011, when the aircraft was repainted before rejoining the airshow circuit.
• Failure of the #2 engine forced cancelation of the 2012 airshow season
• Mechanical issues forced cancelation of 2017 and 2018 airshow seasons
• Breitling canceled most aviation sponsorships in 2018, including the Super Constellation
• Faced with a CHF 20 million repair bill and additional FOCA mandated flight restrictions, the SCFA Board of Directors decided in late April 2019 to disband the organization
• In an email was send to members April 28, 2019 informing them of this decision
• Aircraft sold to German investment group July 1, 2019 with the goal of restoring airworthiness of aircraft
• Meirer Motors is spearheading the project and aircraft being disassembled in August/September 2019
• Moved by road to Eschbach-Bremgarten in southwestern Germany on November 27, 2019
• Advertised for sale April 2023