'Members of the General Commison [for the Netherlands East Indies] have left for Indonesia again by KLM plane.' NL-312 is still in military uniform but on the far right is PH-TAA, ex NL-303, already in KLM livery. The NGAT aircraft always had paper PH registrations. NL-312 never wore PH-TAN, as this was changed to PH-TBT in February 1946. The Skymasters were formally transferred to KLM in August 1947 but as PH-TAA shows, repainting started earlier. Photo by: Harry Sagers / Nationaal Archief

74-72396 delivered to USAAF in January 1945. To AA in 1946. To Air France in 1949 as F-BELL. Leased to Air Vietnam in 1962. Burnt at Saigon in 1969. Seen on the left is the Friedkin School of Aeronautics building. Kenny Friedkin started Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1949. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

The source wrongly states that this photo shows the departure of Skymaster '313' to the East Indies with members of parliament in 1946. Since the aircraft is NL-300, what we see here is almost certainly the departure of the first postwar flight to the East Indies (Indonesia) on 10 November 1945, captained by KLM chief pilot Dirk Parmentier. Photo by: Willem van de Poll / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Damaged in Germany on 4 January 1949, presumably on Berlin Airlift. Stored at MASDC in 1964, then returned to Korea to serve in ROKAF - see Eugene Zorn's 1981 picture. Photo from: War Memorial of Korea

Previously 43-17133, N37477 and to G-APNH. Delivered as a Carvair in September 1964

With SGAC logo. Later D6-CAA, 6907 (South Africa Air Force), ZS-XXX, ZS-NJN, 7Q-YYY, 3D-NJN and 3D-ADW

Static display aircraft

This is the aircraft that is now displayed at the Luftbrücke Museum (Berlin Airlift Memorial) at Frankfurt airport.

Fire-fighting Air Tanker 160 at that time operated by AeroFlite Inc.

This aircraft has been parked in this location at Overboelare Airfield, home of the Flemish Gliding Centre Phoenix, since May 1971, please refer to the other photos of it on Air History for full details of its history.

Very rare photo of ex USAAF 42-72334, which was converted by Douglas to C54B-DC, and delivered to Pan Am as NX88892 in August 1946. For some reason the aircraft was registered with the NX prefix, denoting "experimental". It was reportedly never taken in service and remained unnamed (note it only carries the word "Clipper", without an actual name). Instead it went to Avianca Colombia as C-114 in September 1946, but on February 15, 1947 the aircraft crashed into Mount El Tablazo en-route from Barranquilla to Bogotá, killing all 53 people on board - which at the time, was the worst commercial airline crash in history.

First registered to Western Airlines in April 1946 as N10203, it was sold to Australian National Airways (ANA) in July 1947 as VH-ANG. Then to British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines (BCPA) in April 1948 as VH-BPD before being purchased by QEA in May 1949 as VH-EBM. After being with them for ten years it was sold to Zantup Air Transport (N600Z) and probably converted for cargo operations. In April 1962 it was purchased by Trans Mediterranean Airways (OD-AEC) but crashed on 9 July 1962. (Photographer Unknown)

Why this aircraft was in New Zealand then is unrecorded, but TEAL - New Zealand's national airline - did later lease TAA DC-4s for services when Sandringham flying boats were grounded and for services from Christchurch. Ordered new by TAA and entered service on 4 November 1946. Leased to British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines from April 1948 to February 1949 and registered as VH-BPB. Returned to TAA and registration renewed as VH-TAB but name changed to "John Gilbert". Later converted to a freighter in 1959. Renamed "David Collins". Sold in 1970. (Whites Aviation, Auckland Photo No. 5563)

Purchased new by ANA and entered service on the 10 June 1946. Crashed on landing at Sydney on 16 October 1952. The aircraft was recovered and transported to Melbourne but was declared beyond economical repair. (British Columbia Government Travel Bureau Photo - 1947)

Departing Whenaupai Airport - Auckland's International Airport from 1945 to 1965 - probably on March 8th,1946 during Sydney-Auckland-Sydney demonstration flight. The aircraft operated its first revenue flight on 11 February 1946 but was lost in a crash shortly after take-off from Perth, Western Australia 26 June 1950 with the loss of all on board. (Unknown Photographer)

Loading 3 million doses of hog cholera (swine fever) serum on behalf of the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) for delivery to Shanghai, to combat a serious outbreak of that disease in China. Photo from: American Airlines

Ex-Spantax EC-ACD. Delivered to Stansted for British Air Ferries on 29th January 1973. On overhaul at the time of the photo with #1 engine out, it was air-tested on 1st February 1974. It departed 5 days later on delivery to Octavian Airways of Vientiane, Laos, arriving at Bangkok on 20th February. I have been unable to find any subsequent history of the aircraft.