Unknown photographer

Delivered to the USAAF 28 March 1945 as 44-76629, to the RAF as KN483 3 April 1945, and 28 Sqd SAAF as 6881 6 October 1945. To Africair/Wenela Air Service 7 November 1953 first as ZS-DIV, then VP-YSN and A2-ZEN. Returned to the SAAF ca 1980 as the second 6855. Hit by surface to air missile in then South West Africa 1 May 1986, damaged and repaired. Partially converted to C-47TP December 1997, to Dodson Aviation as N914Q 14 July 1998, to Dodson International as ZS-OJJ 15 November 1999, later Rossair, Naturelink, Limpopo Air Service, UN Humanitarian Air Service. To Preferred Air Parts as N561PT. Photographer unknown

Delivered to the US Navy as R4D-1 4703 in 1942. To C-900 in 1948, N1699M, N69D, N1699M, N234Z in 1963, HZ-TA3 in 1979, N234Z in 1989, ZS-MRU in 1990, N451ZS in 2011 and ZK-JGB in 2016.

Ex Pratt and Whitney test aircraft, just arrived in South Africa to start a new carriere.

This 1942 R4D-1 spent her first four years with the USN then took up a corporate transport role with a series of different owners, ending up in South Africa from 1990. Arrived at Dunsfold 27 Jan 2006 and was intended to be going on to a new career in Iceland but held up with bureaucratic problems. It was eventually flown to New Zealand in late 2012, as N451ZS.