Delaware ANG

K25 slide scan. Built 1957 as 56-511 for USAF, still active with MT ANG 1987. Hawkins and Powers 1990, stored Greybull. HV Flying Service N132FF Tanker 83 1992. Aero Firefighting 1997, stored Chandler 2004. International Air Response N121TG 2007. Had been deployed to Cardiff-Wales in 2014.

USAF 56-0511. Acquired by Hawkins and Powers Aviation from USAF surplus stocks in 1990 for conversion to a fire bomber. Initially stored at Greybull in the full camouflage markings of the Montana Air Guard with whom it had served latterly, at Great Falls, Montana. No civil marking was applied. Converted and sold to Hemet Valley Flying Service, Hemet, CA, in 1992, where it went into service registered N132FF, tanker"83".

The personal aircraft of four-star admiral Royal Ingersoll. C-54D 42-10697 was delivered directly to the US Navy as 56511 in May 1945. The aircraft flew for various small civil operators from 1975. Retired in the 1990s and statically preserved at the South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB, as 42-10697. Photo from: Naval History and Heritage Command