Built in 1946 for Western Airlines, then went to Australia from 1947 to 1977 and imported in 1981 ex-Basler Flight Service (N5581S). On 16 June 1987 it was wrecked when the crew tried to squeeze it into a 3500 ft gravel strip at Hidden Bay/SK. [The minuscule registration is just below the tail logo.]

Ex-EI-ARS of Aer Turas. For maintenance at MIACO's facility.

Ex-IADCOM. Later dumped in a remote corner of Hal Far; fuselage transported to Luqa and burnt on the fire dump in 1983.

Delivered to the USAAF as 42-72220 in June 1944, transferred directly to the US Navy as R5D-1 Bu. No. 39172. Then to Northwest Airlines as NC49529 in 1946, leased to Pacific Overseas Airlines as N49529 in 1948. Joined Icelandair in 1962, from February 1963 as TF-FID. Four years later, it moved to South Africa and joined Africair/Wenela Air Services as ZS-FCK. After a short tenure, it was leased by Botswana National Airways as VQ-ZEG, later A2-ZEG. The following year it returned to South Africa as ZS-FCK with Protea Airways. Swazi Air Leased it in October 1970 as VQ-ZJN and from May 1971 3D-AAL

Delivered to the USAAF as 41-107469 in 1944. To Chicago & Southern Airlines as NC53103 in 1946, Philippine Air Lines as PI-C102 in 1948 and Pacific Overseas Airlines as HS-POE in 1951. To Thai Airways as HS-TSA in 1958 then to the Thai Air Force in 1960. Returned to Thai Airways in 1965 then to Botswana National Airways as VQ-ZEF in 1966. Reregistered as A2-ZEF in 1968. To Suidwes Lugdiens as ZS-IPR in 1972. To the SAAF as 6906 in 1981. Back to ZS-IPR in 1995 then to the Dutch Dakota Association as PH-DDY in 1997. Preserved at Lelystad from 2004 as NL-316 and PH-TAR from 2020. Photographer unknown

Sold as N98AC in 1975. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Exported to the USA as N8060C in 1979. Crashed in flames after striking trees on final approach in fog near McCormick, South Carolina, on19 November 1979 killing both crew. The cargo was 15,000 lbs (approx 7,000Kg) of Marijuana. At the time it was operated by Tiburon Aircraft Inc.

Photo by David Lucabaugh.

Ex 42-72394, N30054. Originally delivered to USAAF 28th December 1944. Interocean Airways took delivery of it on 3rd May1961. Withdrawn from use and broken up at Luxembourg July 1967.

Climbing away from Runway 24. Delivered to BAF in April 1969 after over 4 years in storage at Stansted as LX-IOF.

Formerly USAAF 42-72292, USN 50849, N88756 with Alaska Airlines and Transocean Air Lines, XA-GUP with Guest Aerovias, and HS-TSC with Thai Airways. Operated for Rhodesian Air Services as VP-YTY from January 1962 until June 1964 when sold to Bechuanaland National Airways as VQ-ZEC. Re-registered in 1968 as A2-ZEC and later as ZS-FLO to Botswana National Airways and VP-YTY to Air Trans Africa. Registered to Affretair as TR-LNV in September 1968 and written off at Uli Airstrip, Biafra on 28th June 1969. Photographer unknown

Note that the airline logo is carried on the tail, but titles have not yet been applied. Compare with the later photos in the database.

Built as VC-54C USAAF s/n 42-107451. This was the first a/c outfitted for presidential use. It was used once by Franklin Roosevelt, that being his flight to Yalta and back in 1945. On that flight it was marked with a false serial number on the vertical fin. The a/c has been restored to the markings for that flight. Later used by President Harry Truman from 1945 through 1947 when it was replaced by a VC-118. This photo was taken in the old presidential a/c hangar (the a/c were wedged in, not good for photography!). Now on display in the new Presidential Gallery in the main museum.

Built for the USAF as C-54D 42-72560 and flew on the Berlin Air Lift as such. In post-1945 USN service it was assigned to the 1958 'Operation Deep Freeze' in Antarctica which may have been when it acquired the belly mounted device. Retired to MASDC in 1966 then registered as N67041 in 1975 and converted to aerial firefighting tanker. Retired again in 1989 and put on display, with original USAF livery and serial, at Travis AFB (KSUU).

Built for the USAAF as 44-9117. To Seaboard and Western as N50055 in 1947 and returned to USAF in 1954 for conversion to VC-54E. Placed into storage at AMARC in 1975 and sold to Desert Air Parts in 1979. Bought by Western International Aviation at Tuscon in November 1986 and delivered to Millardair of Toronto, Canada as C-GQIC in January 1988. Placed into storage when Millardair ceased flying and sold to Buffalo Airways in December 1999. Crashed at Diavik Airport NWT in August 2002

Built as 43-17222 and delivered to the US Navy as bu 56536, this C-54 was retired by the military in September 1971. It was put back into civil service in 1975 and is pictured withdrawn by Sea-Bear Air Transport. Last with Commercial Air Transport as RP-C325 in the Philippines circa 1995, the aircraft was stored at Manila and presumably scrapped.

The 18th Carvair conversion EC-AZA was one of two formerly operated by Aviaco which joined Dominicana in 1969. One of these, HI-168, crashed after take off from Miami in June 1969 and the other, HI-172 was dismantled at Santo Domingo in November 1978 and moved to the Hotel Embajador in Santo Domingo, originally for use as a restaurant but later became a Piano Bar and Disco.