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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:R5D-3 Skymaster
    Last Military Serial:56514 USN
    Construction Number:10741
    Last Civil Registration:N67062
    Compressed ID:Douglas R5D-3 sn 56514 USN cn 10741...
    Latest Owner or Location:March Field Museum Foundation, March Arb, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-54D-5-DC by Douglas at Chicago, IL.

    31 May 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-72636.

    31 May 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 56514 as a R5D-3.

    October 1965

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

    February 1975

    To Texas Truck Salvage Company.

    3 April 1975

    To Robert B. Audiss with new c/r N67062.

    11 October 1976

    To Central Air Service Inc, East Wenatchee, WA keeping c/r N67062.
    Markings added: 148

    September 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Former US Navy R5D-4 N67062 is a typical C-54 fire bomber with belly retardant tank. at Lancaster Fox Field, California, September 1979. It was one of a fleet of eight C-54s owned by Central Air Services, Wenatchee, Washington and Rantoul, Kansas

    Operated as fire service #148.

    9 May 1984

    Certificate of airworthiness for N67062 (C54D-DC, 10741) issued.

    12 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: At Tuscon AZ

    18 July 2002

    Based at March Field Air Museum, March ARB, Riverside, CA.
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    18 July 2002

    To March Field Museum Foundation, March Arb, CA keeping c/r N67062.

    1 January 2009

    Certificate of airworthiness for N67062 (C54D-DC, 10741) issued.

    29 March 2009


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: March Field Air Museum

    27 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At March Field Air Museum, Riverside, California

    12 September 2014

    To March Field Museum Foundation, March Arb, CA keeping c/r N67062.

    8 June 2018

    Civil registration, N67062, cancelled.
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    Print Sources
     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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