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Description
| Manufacturer: | Lockheed | |
| Base model: | C-121 | |
| Designation: | EC-121 | |
| Version: | M | |
| Nickname: | Super Constellation | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1925-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Transport | |
| Modified Mission: | Special electronic installation | |
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| Paul Lavoie Londonderry, NH | Stationed Rota, Spain VQ-2 from March 1967 to July 1968.
Logged over 900 hours on the EC-121M. Key deployments, Boca Chica NAS, Athens, Greece. Also logged over 800 hours on the EA-3D, Three carrier detachments (America (CVA66), Saratoga (CVA60), FDR (CVA42) 50+ carrier landings and takeoffs. Also 60+ missions from DaNang over the Tonkin Gulf and into North Vietnam. EC-121 was a great, slow plane. When at Boca Chica, we flew around Cuba almost every day. Average flight length, 10-14 hours. Landed at Gitmo about once a week. After I was discharged, I was horrified to find out that one of VQ-1's EC-121M's was shot down by the Chinese in 1969. I believe the pilot was LT-CMDR Overstreet. He was my Ops Officer when I was in DaNang. 06/08/2005 @ 12:09 [ref: 10432] |
| Allan \"Putt\" Prevette Camarillo, CA | The EC-121M was strictly a Navy varient of the Lockheed Warning Star. In the early 1960s there were eight aircraft taken from storage and modifed at Baltimore, Maryland to electronic counter measures. Four of the aircraft went to VQ-1 (Atsugi, Japan) and four went to VQ-2 (Rota, Spain) At that time they were designated WV-2Q. Later, in 1962, they were redisignated EC-121M.
These eight aircraft and those that followed provided valuable electronic reconnassiance during the Cold War and the Vietnam Conflict. The history of the EC-121M is marked with tragedy. One EC-121M aircraft from VQ-2 had the tail section separate over Germany in 1962 killing all on board. In 1969 North Korean Migs shot down one aircraft from VQ-1 in the Sea of Japan with the loss of all hands. In 1970 an EC-121M from VQ-1 crashed at DaNang, RVN Airbase, killing most on board. Lockheed made a "Gem" with the Constellation and the EC-121M was the "Crown Jewel!" 01/25/2005 @ 20:27 [ref: 9261] |
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