Dates

Event

1957

Constructed as a WV-2.
Ordered as PO-2W under old system, redesignated prior to completion.

27 September 1957

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 143221.

October 1957

Transferred to Navy Combat Information Officer School, VT-86, NAS Glynco, GA.

October 1962

Redesignated as EC-121K.

February 1973

Transferred to Navy Combat Information Officer School, VT-86, NAS Pensacola.
NAS Pensacola, FL.

19 October 1973

Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

19 October 1973

To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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Markings Applied: 502, VT-86, NAVY VT-86, 4B, 143221
Initially displayed in VT-86 markings.

15 October 1982

Photographer: Paul Thallon
Notes: 1982 photo at National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL of Lockheed EC-121K Warning Star

1991

Photographer: Wayne Gomes
Notes: Photographed at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL.

By 1998

Markings Applied: 3, BRENDA
Marked as Weather Reconnaissance Squadron 4 (VW-4) aircraft.

11 September 2003

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: 35mm slide photographed from a moving bus

16 September 2004

Involved in an incident.
Hurricane Ivan blew off upper radome and damaged right aileron and elevator.

By 2007

Repaired.
By with the exception of the right aileron, all repairs had been made using parts salvaged from EC-121H USAF s/n 53-0535.

Currently on display in VW-4 markings.

19 April 2010

Photographer: Matt Maranto

27 March 2011

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola NAS, Pensacola, Florida, United States