douglasc54skymaster

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Ralph Hanlon Collection Photo

from SDASM Archives

  • Ernie Viskupic said:
    This specific aircraft was transferred from the USAAF as a C-54D Skymaster (ex-USAAF 42-72728) to the Marines as a Douglas R5D-3.
  • Timespanr said:
    to straighten it up a bit you might have also said it this was R5D-3 Douglas (C-54D Skymaster ex-USAAF 42-72728) PC(4) USMC KW

Stockholm, Bromma, Uppland, Sweden

from Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet

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  • Andrey Timofeev said:
    Wonderful aircrafts ^___^
  • TVL1970 said:
    The aircraft in the foreground had a very interesting history. As per the Logbook Magazine Database: www.logbookmag.com/databases/articles.asp?ID=93&CatID=47 "NC90905, Douglas DC-4 (Douglas C-54 Skymaster), Clipper Munich, notes: c/n 27344, originally delivered to the U. S. Army Air Force as a Douglas C-54E-15-DO Skymaster, Serial Number 44-9118, on 8 May 1945. After being transferred to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation it was purchased by American Overseas Airlines on 24 November 1945, and named Flagship Glasgow and later renamed Flagship Berlin. It later went to Pan Am on 25 September 1950, when Pan Am bought American Overseas Airlines. It was first named Clipper Munich, then Clipper Frankfurt and finally Clipper Mermaid. The C-54E was then sold to an aircraft broker before being purchased by the Spanish military, registered T.4-11. It eventually crashed on 9 August 1976, near Vejer de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain."
  • Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet said:
    TVL1970: Thank you so much for this complete information about the American aircraft. Very interesting history indeed! I'll add it to our photo database. /Anna B.
  • ClickKen04 said:
    This is a great record shot!
  • sambasupernova said:
    very neat, beautiful old planes!

Douglas R5D, 56547, NAS Pensacola

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  • TVL1970 said:
    US Navy Douglas R5D-3 Skymaster, BuNo 56547 (c/n 22199). This aircraft would eventually enter commercial service, initially as N96450, before being registered as N74AF. As per cgibin.rcn.com/jeremy.k/cgi-bin/gzNavySearch.pl?target=Do...: Leased and then bought by West Indies Air Transport. While taxiing at Aguadilla-Borinquen Airport in Puerto Rico Feb 3, 1992, suffered a hydraulics failure and struck the right wing of parked Super Constellation HI-542CT and ran into a ditch. A fire broke out and N74AF was [Damaged Beyond economical Repair ("DBR")]. Here is a July 2014 photo of the remaining hulk of this aircraft at Aguadilla-Borinquen Airport (BQN / TJBQ) by Flickr user Sander: www.flickr.com/photos/xxsander99/14841594953/