Delivered to Icelandair on May 1966 as TF-FIK. Re-registered on Oct 1979. Logged 23265 flight hours with Icelandair. Kar-Air bought the plane Apr 1980 and reserved registration OH-KLB. Leased to Finnish Air Force with reg FF-2 Jun 1980, until Air Force bought plane 1982. March 30, 2004 Finnish Air Force flew last flight from Jyväskylä (EFJY/JYV) to Pori (EFPO/POR) where plane after 11700 flight hours were given as instructional airframe for Tekniikkaopisto in Pori (Technical school).

Former registrations include: N969PG, YV-823C, and JY-AFU.

Ex Northwest Airlines.

Ex USAF it became an exhibit for the Milestones of Flight Air Museum at Lancaster Fox Field CA. at some time after this photo (possibly 2013). The museum closed in 2015. Aircraft still noted there in early 2018.

Formerly PH-KSC with KLM Cityhopper.

Acquired Nov 1998 ex 9M-MHN Malaysian Airlines. Retired Nov 2009. Total Time: 81629 hours and 9891 cycles.

Lifting off for another circuit during a crew training detail.

An unexpected surprise! On this day I was driving from LAS to LAX taking a slightly circuitous route in order to call in at Mojave and see all the stored aircraft there. The onward route to LAX took me past Lancaster CA. As I got nearer, to my great surprise, I saw the unmistakable and amazing sight of a Constellation, Furthermore it was flying circuits! It turned out to be N73544 doing some crew training prior to its eventual trip to Switzerland the following month. Little did I know at the time that just over 2 years later I would fly on it through the Alps from and to Geneva.

End of training and on short final for a full stop landing. What a great and totally unexpected day this was.