This 61 year old Skymaster awaits another load of cargo at the Brooks Fuel ramp for which it operated until the aircraft crashlanded near Nenana on 17 January 2007.

Aircraft flying as Tanker 161 and seen on final for San Bernardino tanker base for a re-load

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

Approaching runway 31 at Soesterberg AB.

Early January 2010, Haiti was struck by a massive earthquake. As the airport of its capital Port-au-Prince had only limited capacity to receive large aircraft, Dutch aid was flown to Curacao per KDC_10 T-235, seen here in the back and reloaded onto Florida Air Transport's C-54G N406WA, which brought it to Port-au-Prince.

The Tropical Science Mission was from late 1945 to early 1946. According to the caption, the C-54 had already visited Australia when it arrived in China. It is known from media reports that it was in Australia in January 1946. 45-559 was passed to the Mexican air force in 1960. Photo from: The William Orthman World War II Collection/The Museum of Flight

Originally 45-502 with the USAAF/USAF it served until retired to the Davis-Monthan AFB "boneyard" in March 1973. Civilianised as N1022A in November 1978 it was reregistered HH-JMA for Haiti Air Freight in July 1988, but withdrawn from use c.1990. In 1992 it was acquired by the USAF Museum and is now is now preserved in the Hill Aerospace Museum at Ogden-Hill AFB, UT.

Photographer: Bo-Göran Lundkvist.

Photographer: Unknown photographer.

Kept under cover in Tempelhof's Hangar 6, and now part of the collection of the German Museum of Technology. There are proposals for these facilities to be developed into a modern exhibition area in which more of the Museum's collection could be displayed.

After USAAF service as 45-627 this aircraft was leased to Pan American as N88945 "Clipper Gladiator" in April 1947 serving until February 1954 when it was returned to the USAF. Retired from service in February 1973 it was stored at MASDC Tucson until civilianised as N88945 in early 1981, becoming N811E with Globe Air the following year. When Globe Air closed in 1985 it was stored until acquired by Brooks Air Fuel in June 1991 and converted as a fuel tanker, sadly it was written off on 8th October 1993 when it veered off the runway landing at Point Lay, AK., with a cargo of unleaded auto fuel.

Early January 2010, Haiti was struck by a massive earthquake. As the airport of its capital Port-au-Prince had only limited capacity to receive large aircraft, Dutch aid was flown to Curacao and reloaded onto Florida Air Transport's C-54G N406WA, which brought it to Port-au-Prince.

last with Avesca - scrapped Villavicencio by 2001

Photo by Steve Kraus.