Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

According to online sources, this C-46 was scrapped by Northeast Bolivian Airways in the 1980s.

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

To Djibouti Air Force as J2-MAD, last reported to be stored at Djibouti Airport.

Ex F-BIAR, call sign F-ZBCC. Used by the French Air Force with two other DC-7C AMORs (F-ZBCA and F-ZBCB) converted for recording and observing ballistic missile tests at Landes Test Centre. Withdrawn from use in 1974 and stored at Istres before being broken up.

Ex SE-BAS, USAAF/USAF (C-53D) 42-68773. Later became HH-CN3 and finally HH-CNE. Stored at San Domingo, and restored to flying condition in 2004..

Scrapped in September 1975 at Kemble. Operated by 114 Squadron based at Benson, which disbanded on 31 October 1971.

Ex N24871, N3765, USN (TC-45J) 39226. Became ZS-PRA (registered as a Volpar Turboliner II) shortly after the picture was taken, and destroyed in a fatal accident at Johannesburg on 22 September 1972.

Later 'preserved' at a children's playground near Sofia airport, but damaged in an arson attack in 1982 and believed to have been scrapped.

K25 slide scan. Built 1961 as N9746C for Western, converted to Freighter 1969. International Jetair CF-IJJ 1971. Nordic LN-MOI 1972, Fred Olsen LN-FOH 1973, leased to Air de Cologne during 1988, Amerer Air OE-ILA 1997, Buffalo Airways C-GLBA 2007. A bank holiday daystop was the one and only occasion the Electra would be seen during daylight, night shots being almost impossible for obvious reasons. Note the "Chartered from A/S Fred. Olsens Flyselskap" titles on the nose.

The first Stratoliner, which first flew on the last day of 1938 and fatally crashed on 18 March 1939. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

Built as 42-96607 for the USAAF. To N91363 in March1965 and exported to Colombia as HK-812W with Soexa in April 1969. Re-registered HK-812, bought by Aeropesca in 1970 and Intercontinental in 1983. Aerosol bought the aircraft in 1987 and it was withdrawn and stored at Bogota, still wearing part of its Intercontinental livery by 1990. Broken up in 2004.

Built for the US Navy as PV-1 Bu.34709, to the RCAF as 2244 in 1943 and N1206 in 1954. Bought by Howard Aero Services and converted to a Super Ventura. To N5034F operated by the Firestone Rubber Company in 1961 and converted to a Howard 400. To N1970H in 1968, N197RD in 1969, N100LR in 1974 and YV-183CP in 1977. Stored at Bogota by 1992 and later transferred to the Colombian Air Force Museum and painted as 'FAC 654'.

1939: TOS USAAC. 1945: Purchased by an unknown aircraft dealer, registered NC62477. Over the years through several owners it was used to haul cargo, for oil exploration, and agricultural spraying. October/58: Roger Stedman, Miami, FL; sold it to Cuban revolutionaries who were caught using it for gun-running from Florida. November/58: Impounded in Miami. December/60: Stored at Cannon AFB, NM. January/61: F. Daniel Bennett, who sold it to the Air Force Museum. 1980: Flown by C-5A to Cannon AFB for display. August/88: C-5A ride to Lowry AFB, CO for the Wings Over the Rockies Museum. Restored as 39-522.

Photographer: Unknown photographer.

Photographer: Unknown photographer.

The old markings are the remains of its service with RANSA (Rutas Aereas Nacionales S.A.). Photographer: Unknown photographer

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

1938: TOS USAAC, assigned to Wright Field, Dayton, OH and used for evaluation testing. 10/1942: Declared restricted and relegated to utility work. 1946: G.H. Baldwin with c/r NC56847. 1954: Two owners operated it for crop dusting. 1965: WFU, stored at Tucson, AZ.. 3/71: Ferried from Albuquerque to the Air Force Museum. 1980 to 1982: Restored and marked as a plane with the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron in 1939. Rare retractable turret was recovered by Darryl Greenamyer from a belly-landed B-18 high atop a Hawaiian mountain.