Converted to a water bomber and operated by Waig Aircraft Inc. Built as a C-54D for the USAAF as 42-72645 and delivered on 01 Jun 1945. Transferred to the RAF as KL984 on 23 Jun 1945. Transferred to the US Navy/Marines as 91998 on 23 Feb 1946. Converted to a R5D-5 in Dec 1958. Later converted to a C-54J then a C-54Q. WFU and stored at Davis Monthan in Oct 1970. Registered as N96449 with Waig Aircraft Inc on 12 Dec 1975, Crashed on 02 Dec 1980 returning to Tucson from Ryan Field after being released from fire fighting duties. Registration cancelled on 15 Apr 1982.

AA4283 is pictured about to taxy out to rw33L for departure to New York (JFK)

Arriving from Calgary as ACA1139/1138 in place of the usual Q400.

Delivered to Continental Airlines as N14118 in 1997. Merged into United Airlines in 2010.

Delivered to Continental Airlines as N14118 in 1997. Merged into United Airlines in 2010.

Delivered new 29th July 1972 and withdrawn from use KGYR Aug 1997. Transferred to FedEx Oct 1997 (N547FE reserved but not taken up) but not converted to freighter in the end , just used for spares.

First delivered to US Airways in September 2000.

Departing from runway 24 at KSBD is Tanker 118 of the USFS, which in its previous life was USCG HC-130H 1721 (still carried on the nose).

former USCG 1721, one of 7 redundant HC-130H that were assigned to the US Forest Service in 2013 to be converted to Air Tankers. Instead of installing retardant tanks, the USFS only used a slip-in Modular Airborne FireFighting System (MAFFS) retardant system. In August 2018 the USFS lost interest in using the Hercules as AirTanker, and the 7 aircraft were transferred to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE). In July 2019 Tanker 118 was painted in CAL FIRE livery

On short final for 18 at DCA, this F-28 later served with Piedmont and USAir as N476US. The factory regn was PH-EZV.