This C-121C Super Constellation, tail number 54-1056, is at Duxford for the 'Flying Legends' weekend. The Super 'Connie', an L-1049G, was acquired and restored by the Super Constellation Flying Association, a group of Swiss aviation enthusiasts together with commercial pilot Francisco Agullo from Geneva. This particular aircraft had served as a freight and passenger transport in the USAF, bearing the serial 54-0156. From November 1955 through October 1962 the aircraft was used by the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) to undertake medical evacuation missions across the North and South Atlantic to Europe, as well as to Saudi Arabia and India. Following its retirement from MATS it was transferred to the Mississippi Air National Guard (ANG), before being passed on to the West Virginia ANG in March 1967. Five years later the C-121 was briefly retired to the Military Aircraft Storage and Redistribution Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, In June 1972, 54-0156 was transferred to the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution as a bargaining tool for it to acquire a Boeing 307 Stratoliner from an aerial spraying firm called Aviation Specialties. The deal was finalized in August of that year and 54-0156 was sent to Mesa, Arizona, where the aircraft commenced its new life as an aerial spray tanker, being placed on the civil registry as N73544 in March 1973. The 'Connie' was primarily used in spraying for budworm infestations around the forests of Maine and Quebec, in Canada, from 1973 through 1976. Returning to Mesa in 1976, and later to Chandler, Arizona, N73544 languished in the hot Arizona desert until December 1982, when it was purchased by D. Benny Younesi and flown to Chino, California. In January 1984, the veteran transport flew to Camarillo from Chino with a feathered No 4 propeller. With no operating base to work out of and no-one available to repair or maintain the aircraft, it sat at the eastern end of Camarillo airport with little or no hope of ever flying again. It was here were the Swiss enthusiasts became involved in its future. It was sold to the SCFA in 2003. PS: In April 1966 my unit, the 64th FIS (Fighter Interceptor Squadron) went to water survival school at Lake Texoma, TX/OK, before the unit deployed to South East Asia. We were flown by an EC-121 'Warning Star', an Early Warning Radar Surveillance Aircraft, from Paine Field, WA to Dallas IAP, TX and back. From Dallas IAP to Perrin AFB, TX we flew on a C-47 'Gooney Bird'. The 7 hr flight each way on the EC-121 was at 18,000-ft and there was just enough turbulence to make for excellent sleeping. This picture was taken on 13 July 2014, Sig...