Navy WV-2, Lockheed "Warning Star"

© 1997 Geoff Sobering, Non-commercial Use Allowed with Attribution, All Other Rights Reserved


The Lockheed "Warning Star" was one of the first airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft. This plane is a Navy WV-2, the Air Force designation was EC-121.

More information on the Lockheed "Warning Star" aircraft (and what appears to be another photo of this plane in earlier times) can be found on this interesting page.
More information about the entire Constellation aircraft types can be found here.

These photographs were taken on May 20, 1997 at the Florence Air and Missile Museum in Florence, SC (actually, in a field just to the west of the museum itself).

A note about the photographs: clicking on the thumbnail picture will load an image approximately 500x300 pixels large (~40Kb). Under each thumbnail is the word "huge". Clicking there will load the original scanned image of about 1000x600 pixels (~100Kb).

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