Aircraft Photo of 9Q-CLM | Douglas C-54D Skymaster | Air Transport Office - ATO | AirHistory.net #425457
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:9Q-CLM
Aircraft Original Type:Douglas DC-4
Aircraft Generic Type:Douglas DC-4 (C-54/R5D/Skymaster)
Aircraft Version:Douglas C-54D Skymaster
C/n (msn):10644
Operator Titles:Air Transport Office - ATO
Location
City / Airport:LanseriaMap
Country:South Africa
Airport Codes:ICAO: FALA   IATA: HLA   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:27 August 1997
Photo by:Tim Spearman
Photo ID: 425457
Photo Comment

Delivered to the USAAF as 42-72539, withdrawn to MASDC at Davis Monthan in 1970 and bought in 1977 by Aero Union as N65397. Sold to Soundair in Canada 1979 as C-GCXG and returned to the US in 1990 before being sold in Kenya in 1995. Registered 9Q-CLM with Transcontinental in October 1996 and joined Air Transport office in December 1996. Sold to Cargo Express Congo shortly after this photo was taken and registered as EL-WLS. Suspected of operating supply flights to UNITA rebels and impounded by the Angolan Air Force in 1998, it ended its days on the dump at Luanda and was scrapped by June 2012.

This photo is copyright © Tim Spearman, and may not be used or published in any way without permission.

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