Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Final photos HL9016 NC-121K Super Constellation.

Hobby Master 1/200 Airliner Series HL9016 Lockheed NC-121K Super Constellation, Project Magnet 145925, 1963.

Originally ordered as a PO-2W Warning Star it was re-designated WV-2-1049A-55-137 c/n 5506 BuNo. 145925 and delivered to the USN January 28, 1958. It was first assigned to VW-3, NAS Agana, Guam as PM-4 but in 1960 transferred to VW-1 still at Agana but now as TE-11. 

In 1961 the aircraft was stored until September 1962 and converted to an NC-121K named Paisano Dos (Friend Two) and assigned to OASU, NAS Patuxent River, MD to map the earth’s magnet field. It was retired in 1973 and scrapped in 1976.






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