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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-4 / C-54/R5D/C-112 Skymaster / Carvair ATL / Canadair DC-4M/C-4 North Star
    Latest Model:C-54R Skymaster
    Last Military Serial:90415 USN
    Construction Number:27371
    Last Civil Registration:N44909
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-54R sn 90415 USN cn 27371...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooks Fuel / Don Brooks, Fairbanks, Alaska

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-54E-15-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-9145.

    Redesignated as R5D-4R.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 90415.

    Converted to a C-54R.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 90415.

    19 December 1989

    To Aerogal, Shell Mera with new c/r HC-BPB.

    To Seafood Resources International with new c/r N44909.

    11 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo at Chandler Memorial, Arizona

    6 September 1996

    To Brooks Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N44909.

    To Sacramento City College of Advanced Transportation, Sacramento Executive Airport, Sacramento, CA.
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    Based at Brooks Fuel/Don Brooks, Fairbanks, AK.
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    Written off.

    20 December 1999

    Civil registration, N44909, cancelled.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
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    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Nicholas Scherrer
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