Last Updated: 6/8/04

 

 

Lockheed Constellations (C-121A, C-121B, VC-121E)

of the 89th Military Airlift Wing (Special Air Missions)

(and a few others in the series)

 

 

Tail Number.

Then

Now

Notes

48-608

“Dewdrop”

 

Ryan Field, Tucson

Cannibalized, then scrapped

48-609

 

 

“MATS Connie”

 

48-610

Columbine II

 

Sante Fe Municipal Airport

Eisenhower’s 1st Air Force One

(Privately owned)

48-611

 

Dominican Republic

Being cannibalized

48-612

(photo)

Aviodome Museum, NL

 

48-613

The Bataan

Planes of Fame Museum, Grand Canyon, AZ

(not 89th) Used by Gen. Douglas McArthur, later by NASA

48-614

Columbine I

 

Pima Air Museum

Used by Gen. Eisenhower when Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

48-615

 

 

(crashed 1981, Argo Air, Dominican Rep.

(not 89th)

48-616

 

(destroyed, 1957)

(not 89th) Had been given to Ethiopia

48-617

 

(destroyed, 21 June 1979)

Used for spraying in Canada, destroyed in landing accident

53-7885

 

Columbine III

USAF Museum

Eisenhower’s 2nd Air Force One

 

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