Delivered to the USAF in 1945. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB with park code CC082 by 1969. To the Pima Museum by 1973.

C-54D "Spirit of Freedom" participated in a Celebration of Life event for "Candy Bomber" Gail Halvorsen at Provo, UT on the 20th of May. I photographed it the next day taking off at Spanish Fork Airport for a candy drop re-enactment. It formed up with a USAF C-17 with the C-54 dropping about 500 candy laden miniature parachutes to a large crowd of enthusiastic youngsters who had gathered at the airport for the event.

Ex USAF 43-17224. Photographer unknown, received via Nelson Hare.

Photographer: Eugene Zorn. Ex USAF 42-72694.

Photographer Paul Tomlin

Registered to Comex in March 1972, ex TransportFlug D-ACAB. Recorded as acquired by SFAir in May 1975 but I have found no exact date. This photo was taken 22 days before Mick Bajcar photographed it at Paris Le Bourget. So, I don't know if it was still Comex or if it was SFAir when I photographed it at Wevelgem. It may have been in the process of being readied for delivery to SFAir.

Lloyd International Colors

Ex OO-VAN, D-ANUK, N95407, N15845, USAAF 42-72347. Converted for cargo (as a DC-4 'Swingtail') from a C-54B Skymaster for Sabena in 1966. It was re-registered as 9Q-CBK in 1984 and operated by Kinair Cargo from September 1984, and was destroyed when it crashed on 23 August 1988 near Mbamou Island, Congo.

Remained with the USAF until 1967 when it was bought by the US Forest Service as N143Z. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

KL979 had flown from London to Whenuapai carrying the NZ Labour Minister. It picked up the NZ prime minister and flew him to London via Washington DC, completing a round-the-world mission. In London the prime minister attended the first session of the United Nations General Assembly on January 10, 1946. KL979 was returned to the US in 1946 and was then passed to the US Navy. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

K25 slide scan. Built 1944 as R5D-3 56528 for USN. Redesignated C-54Q 1962. Retired at Lichtfield Park 1964, MASDC 1966, auctioned 1975. Registered N67035. Biegert Aviation N44915 1977. Initially Falcon Field, Chandler Memorial from 1980. Remained unused in ex USN colours. First wheeled aircraft to land at McMurdo, Antarctica 20 December 1955. Efforts to preserve this historically important aircraft failed and it was scrapped in 2006, the nose section surviving in private ownership.

Ex USAF 42-72706. Became (N4988T), C-GRYZ, C9-ATF, 3D-ATF, (ZS-PAK), scrapped in 2001

Retired to MASDC May 1964. Uploaded for its rarity despite the poor quality. It appears to have a large observation window so may have been re-designated as HC-54D Rescuemaster.

Delivered to the USAAF as 42-72539, withdrawn to MASDC at Davis Monthan in 1970 and bought in 1977 by Aero Union as N65397. Sold to Soundair in Canada 1979 as C-GCXG and returned to the US in 1990 before being sold in Kenya in 1995. Registered 9Q-CLM with Transcontinental in October 1996 and joined Air Transport office in December 1996. Sold to Cargo Express Congo shortly after this photo was taken and registered as EL-WLS. Suspected of operating supply flights to UNITA rebels and impounded by the Angolan Air Force in 1998, it ended its days on the dump at Luanda and was scrapped by June 2012.

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.

Built for the USAF as 43-17242 and entered service in September 1945. Flew with the Danish Air Force as N-242 from 1959 until 1978 and as C-GRYY with Millardair in Canada from 1978 -1991, Registered C9-ATS to Interocean Airways in Mozambique in 1991 and re-registered EL-AWX in 1997. Purchased by Phoebus Apollo in Jan 2000 and donated to the SAA museum at Rand in 2006.