skymaster

Info from Joe Baugher's website. 44-9030 Douglas C-54E-1-DO Skymaster MSN 27256 Converted to C-54M. To MASDC Jul 26, 1965. Returned to service with Air National Guard Apr 1967. Dropped from USAF inventory and transferred to FBI Academy for Sky Marshal Training. Declared surplus by FBI and transferred to Dover AFB Museum (now Air Mobility Command Museum) and now on display at Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, Delaware as a C-54M

Very Nice

Some real rarities and oddities in this image. There's the Convair XC-99 and a Douglas F3D Skyknight as well as a C-124 Globemaster II and some other things I can't identify straight off.

Some very cool aircraft!

Front:..Tigercat, Skyknight....LH bunch running back F84 G Thunderjet ,F-94 Starfire?, T-33, B-26 Invader, B-25 Mitchell Convair XC-99.....Middle bunch F-86, ??, C-119, C-54(orC-118?), C-97........RH bunch FAIRCHILD XC-120 PACK-PLANE, C-124 Globemaster





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Nice shot! A Tigercat and a Skyknight in ONE frame! And, way in the upper left, the one and only prototype of the XC-99 transport version of the B-36 Peacemaker.

Wonderful aircrafts ^___^

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."

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.

This is a great record shot!

very neat, beautiful old planes!