- Current registration - N548GF
- Delivered to USAF August 1955 as RC-121D 53-548
- Redesignated EC-121D September 1963
- Redesignated EC-121D/T
- Redesignated EC-121T May 1970
- To USAF Reserves Homestead AFB March 1976
- Last Homestead EC-121T to be retired
- Retired and flown to Davis Monthan AFB for storage October 1978
- To Pima Air and Space Museum by September 1981
- Excess to needs of museum and sold to Wayne Jones/Global Aeronautical Foundation December 1994 as N548GF with AEW radar system intact
- Restored and ferried from Davis Monthan AFB to Tucson International Airport, AZ April 14, 1995
- Ferried Tucson to Camarillo, CA April 15, 1995
- Based at Camarillo and flown regularly on west coast airshow circuit in USAF markings 30548 until June 2000 when grounded due to corrosion in outer wing panels
- Wing tip tanks removed August 2001 and repairs made to corroded areas in accordance with applicable Lockheed manuals. The affected areas were not chemically milled ribs
- Wayne Jones passed away in June 2002
- For sale in Trade-A-Plane March 2002 ($595,000) and June 2002
- Aircraft stored Camarillo, CA in reasonable condition
- To Yanks Air Museum December 2005
- Aircraft restored to airworthy condition March thru May 2006 for planned flight to Yank's base in Chino
- FAA declined to issue a ferry permit citing concerns about the aircraft's airworthiness
- Yanks completed FAA mandated corrosion repairs in April 2007 but ferry permit was not forthcoming
- Yanks labored most of the summer of 2009 cleaning up the aircraft and making necessary repairs in preparation of a ferry flight.
- Preparation of additional paperwork required for the ferry permit began in fall 2009.
- Yanks spent the last months of 2011 preparing the aircraft for the ferry flight
- Ferry permit finally issued and aircraft flown to Chino Airport on January 14, 2012 for static display at the Yanks Air Museum
- Currently on display at the Yanks Air Museum
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