[ARC5] Usage of large command set racks?

[Dean]

Mike -

> Mike Morrow wrote:
>
>> Has anyone run across any pictures or other documentation of the 
>> service use
>> of AN/ARC-5 or SCR-274-N racks for *more* than three receivers or 
>> more than
>> two transmitters.  I know that some array of such racks existed, but 
>> I've
>> never seen documentation of their actual service use. 
>
When I bought a 4 transmitter rack (FT-331-A, aluminum) a couple of 
years ago, I asked the seller if he had ever seen one in an aircraft 
installation.  He indicated that he believed that there is a display of 
one in the USAF museum in one of the earliest presidential planes, which 
would be either the VC-54-C "Sacred Cow" of President Roosevelt or the 
VC-118 "Independence" of President Truman.  I do not know if this was 
his first hand observation or someone told him about it.

Anybody familiar with the USAF museum Presidential airplanes at 
Wright-Pat?  Or could this be a standard installation on any multiengine 
VIP tranport of the times?

Regards -- Dean Billing  WA6IKJ