[Milsurplus] Re: HF radios in WV 121 Connies and C 97 tomb raiding

[Mike Morrow]

>...I was fortunate to get to see the inside of the Chanute Air Museum's 
>WV 121 Super Constellation...

In my last post I speculated that, for the radios installed, this aircraft had likely been in USN service.  I hadn't noticed your use of "WV 121" rather than "C-121."  

The USN version of the C-121 was the "WV" in "early warning" configuration, and the "R7V" in cargo/passenger configuration (until aircraft nomenclatures were standardized between services in the early 1960s).  The aircraft was most likely a WV-2 or WV-3.  That explains exactly the radio gear found on it, including the AN/ARR-41 that undoubtedly was left behind from an earlier AN/ARC-38A that had been replaced with an AN/ARC-94.

Mike / KK5F