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  • Winged migration (Lockheed Constellation EC121)

    12/17/2009 8:45:12 PM PST · by This_far · 17 replies · 1,018+ views
    Helena Independent ^ | December 11, 2009 | ANGELA BRANDT
    Nearly 30 years ago, a Lockheed Constellation flew to its current location at a Helena college. If all goes as planned, the 1958 plane will do the same to its new home at an Oregon museum next year. After mechanics restore the plane, it will be flown to Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Ore., where it will be on display alongside the famed Spruce Goose, the wood-resin plane billionaire Howard Hughes developed for use in World War II but which never lifted off past its initial prototype. “What an awesome looking machine,” University of Montana-Helena College of Technology...