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•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
•Currently airworthy and active on the European airshow circuit
Hot Wheels copied Pioneer casting based on a Toyota RSC Off Road Rally Vehicle.
A recent charity shop found gift.
Some scans of recently discovered old 6 x 4 prints taken by myself back in the 1980s and 1990s. These were taken with my trusted Canon AE1 camera and at the time I didn’t think some of them were good enough to use however, I thought some might find them interesting and that I would now share them.