The aircraft was ferried from long-term storage in the Sonoran Desert at Marana Regional Airport, Arizona, to the east coast for restoration in March 2016.

Early in 1953 this aircraft was converted to VC-121A-LO standard for use by President Eisenhower, until replaced in 1959 by VC-121E-LO Columbine III (AF Ser.

[5] Ike flew on a Constellation named Columbine before he was president, he often had to make trips across the Atlantic as a high-ranking U.S. General.

[9] Columbine II was purchased and moved from Arizona to Bridgewater, Virginia in March 2016 for restoration by Dynamic Aviation.

The company appointed a new director to the First Air Force One project, which hopes to take the aircraft on tour around the United States.