McDonnel 119/220
BEagle's info is way outdated. Yes George Archer did attempt to restore the aircraft but on one of his taxi runs the nose gear collapsed and it was hauled off the runway.
It was purchased by David Tokoph of El Paso, Tx and a small team under Master Engineer, Collin Berenger continued in 1983 to restore the bird. There was a foot of mud in each of the Westinghouse J34-WE34 engines. The Nose gear was brought to Berenger in 120 pieces. With no drawings on the airplane he reassembled the NLG which to this date has given no problems. (knock on wood).
The aircraft was to use the new JT-12 engines however they lagged behind in development so the the J34's were hung for the government testing. Due to their weight 600 lbs. of lead was poured into the tailcone to right the cg. Surprisingly there was zero corrosion found during the heavy strucual check probably because Albuquerque is so dry.
After one and a half years it was flown by a German B707 pilot Dietrich Reinhardt to El Paso where work continued for another year and then many flights were performed with a Mexican Jetstar pilot, Carlos Gomez in the Left seat. Gomez had been in the right seat during the Reinhardt flight.
After the flight from Albuquerque David Tokoph located the head of the original design team, Fred somethin or other and brought him to El Paso to see his creation. Fred was near eighty at the time. Well Freds heart lept to see the beautiful sight of the 220 on climbout and again as it approached and landed. He spent a couple of days residing in nostalgia land before returning to St. Louis.
A funny thing happened then. Two weeks later several crates arrived in ELP to the attention of Tokoph and when opened were found to contain a nearly complete set of design and systems drawings. Needless to say Berenger was elated not to have to figure out all things about the plane. When contacted ole Fred said that after his return to St. Louis he contacted the members of his old design team and assembled all the drawings and forwarded them to Tokoph. The Mcdonnell Corp. (Now MD) was always very uncooperative, never assisting in any way. They may have been worried about liability.
To cut a long story short The aircraft was nicely painted in Midland, Tx and sat in a hangar for ten years when Tokoph assembled his team and sent them to Midland to ready the plane for flight. With Tokoph at the controls (himself a B727 captain) the aircraft loudly but unceremoniously made the short flight to ELP. Incidentally after 2 hours and 20 minutes you were on final approach whether you wanted to be or not. The plane is fast with a cruise speed of Mach .86. The airframe still has less than 700 hours on it.