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Lockheed C-121 Support Aircraft Blue AngelHome > MADE TO ORDER > Military Aircraft > Prop Powered Models > Lockheed C-121 Support Aircraft Blue Angel
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Item#: MPLC121BA MSRP Price: $299.95 Factory Direct Price: $199.95 Manufacturer: Lockheed
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Lockheed C-121 Support Aircraft Blue Angel
| The first postwar improvement to the civilian "Connie" was the longer-range L-749 of 1947 which the USAAF purchased as the C-121. By 1949 the demand for air travel was increasing which resulted in the L-1049 Super Constellation with a longer fuselage and capable of carrying 109 passengers. The L-1049 was in turn replaced by the L-1649 Starliner with a completely redesigned wing with a far greater fuel capacity.
Military applications included transport, VIP transport, airborne early warning, electronic countermeasures, reconnaissance and weather reconnaissance. On Oct. 24, 1967 over the Gulf of Tonkin, an EC-121D (S/N 53-555) guided a U.S. fighter by radar into position to destroy a Mig-21. This was the first time a weapons controller aboard an airborne radar aircraft had ever directed a successful attack on an enemy plane. When production ended in the late 1950s a total of 856 aircraft of all versions, civil and military had been built. The "Connie" lived on Your model will be made exactly as shown in the photographs. If you would like to change this model in any other way, please visit the Custom Model section of our website to commission a personalized model to be built. |