K25 slide scan. Built 1958 as R4Y-1 145963 for USN, redesignated C-131G 1962, converted to VC-131G, retired to MASDC 1984. Central Air Service N42883, stored Avra Valley 1991. Tulsa Tech Vocational School N221TT 1997 for use as ground instructional airframe at Tulsa Riverside Airport.

K25 slide scan. Built 1954 as 52-5805 for USAF. Transferred to USCG 1976 as 5805 for spares use, remaining at Davis Monthan. Central Air Service as C-131A N81599 1989, stored Avra Valley, cancelled 1997. Nose reported at Pima Air and Space Museum 2019.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1955 as 53-7802 to USAF, retired to MASDC 1976. Central Air Service N43944, stored Avra Valley 1991. Registered to Maricopa Aircraft Services 2000, registered to Tiger Contract Cargo as N404TC 2001. Noted stored Gainesville, TX 2008 still as N43944, scrapped 2009.

K25 slide scan. Delivered to TWA 1957, converted to freighter 1960. Alaska Airlines 1962, converted to bulk fuel carrier 1968 for use on the North Slope by Red Dodge Aviation and Prudhoe Bay Oil Distribution, stored Anchorage 1972, Kenai 1974. Onyx Aviastion 1974, Burns Aviation 1975. Abandoned Stewart-Newburgh, NY 1976. Acquired by Maurice Roundy 1983 and flown to Auburn-Lewiston, ME. Acquired by Lufthansa Berlin Stiftung 2006 together with N974R and N8083H, restoration started 2008 in a purpose built hangar. With costs soaring project was cancelled 2018 with the aircraft being dismantled.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1990, American Airlines 2013, stored Tucson 2014. Avior YV3243 2016, withdrawn Barcelona, Venezuela 2019.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1946 as NC37497 to Gulf Oil, from 1953 N110G, N121L and N683LS in 1968. IFL Group 1988, Midline Air Freight 2001, Basler Turbo Conversions 2004. Converted to BT-67 msn 63 and delivered to North Star Air as C-FVNS 2017. Running up with cowlings removed showing details of the R-1830 's.

K25 slide scan. Built 1944 as R4D-5 17135 for USN. Redesignated C-47H 1962, transferred to USMC around 1969, transferred to Naval Arctic Research Laboratory as N9382 1971. Retired 1977, Northern Air Cargo 1981, IFL Group 1987, Pro Freight 1999, Flown to Portland, TN 2011 for Days Gone By Museum. Seen here still in Arctic Research Laboratory colours.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1969, withdrawn 1992. Scrapped, fuselage in use as fire fighting training aircraft at Singapore Changi from 1996.

K25 slide scan. Built 1960 as 147961 for USN. Retired to MASDC 1976, struck off charge 1978. To Minden Air N299MA 1991. Flew into mountains 3 October 2003 on a positioning flight from Prescott to San Bernardino.

K25 slide scan. Built 1945 as 37254 for USN. Retired to Litchfield Park 1953. Ralco N7248C 1957, stored Douglas Bisbee, AZ. Converted to sprayer 1971. Used for fire ant spraying in Georgia early 1980's, Southwest Aviation 1985. Ferried to Las Cruces, NM and stored. Reregistered N2PV 1988.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1953 as R4Q-2 131677 to USMC, redesignated C-119F 1962, retired to MASDC 1975. Dross Metals 1980, civilanized as N48543, Marine Lumber Company N175ML 1984. Mid Atlantic Air Museum 1995, flown to Reading, PA for restoration.

K25 slide scan. Built for LAI as I-LIRA 1958. Not taken up but instead delivered to TWA as N8083H. Converted to freighter 1961. Alaska Airlines 1962, retired 1967. Converted to bulk fuel carrier 1968 for use on the North Slope by Red Dodge Aviation and Prudhoe Bay Oil Distribution, stored Anchorage 1972, Kenai 1974. Flown to CHandler, AZ 1981 and overhauled 1983. Used as drug runner, damaged in Colombia late 1983. Flown to San Pedro Sula 1983 and stored. Acquired by Maurice Roundy 1986 and flown to Auburn-Lewiston, ME. Acquired by Lufthansa Berlin Stiftung 2006 together with N974R and N7316C.

K25 slide scan. Built 1954 as C-123B 54-592 for USAF, later converted to C-123K, retired to MASDC 1982. Auctioned as N9629N 1986, stored Avra Valley. North East Aviation Group, New Bern, NC 2000. Moved to Coastal Carolina Regional Airport for restoration. Airworthy from 2002, registered to Hagerstown Aviation Museum from 2019.

Visible are 2 smoky take-offs off RWY 01R+L and a classic 737 of United.

SA Air Force Side

Pictured just months after delivery February 26, 1991, this 757 Luxury Jet was retired January 7, 2015. It was sold and ferried to Roswell, NM where it was parted out.

K25 slide scan. Remanufactured by Beech 1952 as C-45H 51-11614 from msn 4236. Air Asia/Air America 1964, converted to VTB-18 Super Turbo 18 by Air Asia at Taiwan 1966. Used extensively in South East Asia. Sold 1975 to Ciba Pilatus Aerial Spraying as HB-GFT and converted to agricultural sprayer. Used in Arabia and Africa on locust spraying contracts. Kalitta 1991, ferried to Willow Run in full Swiss markings. Remained in storage until scrapped in 2001.

K25 slide scan. Built 1956 as LN-KLD for SAS. Linjefly SE-CCU 1969. Combs Airways N323CF 1979 after freighter conversion, Trans Continental 1985, Four Star Air Cargo 1995, active until about 2004, stored Opa Locka. Scrapped 2011.

K25 slide scan. Built 1944 as TC-47B 44-76812 for USAAF, transferred to USN as R4D-7 99828. Civilianized as N3454G, later reregistered N66, N49966 and finally N145JR with Rhoades. Cancelled 1994, derelict Nashville, TN.