About the Image above:
Aircraft info was copied from http://www.verslo.is/Baldur/wv2/VW11.htm
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145941, MJ-941. This was the last Willie
Victor produced.
Photographed by Baldur Sveinsson in Keflavik
in 1965.
The following was received from Earles L. McCaul
on June 22, 2002
BuNo 145941 was not only the 'last' Willie
Victor produced, it was also the 'last'
Constellation aircraft that Lockheed made!
Confirmation is made via delivery dates:
05-Jun-1958 -- last L-1649A delivered to TWA,
N8081H.
10-Aug-1958 -- last L-1049/WV-2 delivered to
VW-2, 145941.
Earles L. McCaul webmaster: The WILLIE
VICTOR Roster
Tucson, AZ, USA.
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| The Role of the Willy Victors
Below is a collection of Willy (Willie) Victor
links to websites that provide insight into the role of those aircraft
flown out of Argentia, Newfoundland during the COLD WAR.
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THE BARRIER FORCE maintain(ed) a 24-hour-a-day,
year-round airborne surveillance of the broad reaches of the North Atlantic
Ocean. Since 1 July 1956, 10,000 such flights have taken off and landed
at the U.S. Naval Station, Argentia, Newfoundland.
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