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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-54Q Skymaster
    Last Military Serial:56493 USN
    Construction Number:10601
    Last Civil Registration:N44910
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-54Q sn 56493 USN cn 10601...
    Latest Owner or Location:Brooks Fuel / Don Brooks, Fairbanks, Alaska

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-54D-1-DC by Douglas at Chicago, IL.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-72496.

    Redesignated as R5D-3.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 56493.

    Converted to a C-54Q.

    August 1969

    To unknown owner with c/r N56493.
    On Stationed out of Sangley Point, Philippines.

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 3C089.

    28 April 1971

    Certificate of airworthiness for N44910 (C54B-DC, 10601) issued.

    11 November 1975

    To Biegert Aviation Inc, Chandler, AZ with new c/r N44910.

    Based at Memorial Airport, Chandler, AZ.
    The tail and engines are missing.
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    11 October 1984


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

    September 1989


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Chandler-Memorial, AZ

    5 December 1997

    To Brooks Fuel, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N44910.
    The airframe likely never left Chandler, AZ.

    Placed on display with Brooks Fuel/Don Brooks, Fairbanks, AK.
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    29 April 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N44810 with USAF-cockade still visible at Chandler, AZ

    17 March 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Chandler Memorial, AZ, USA

    Scrapped.

    30 April 2015

    Civil registration, N44910, cancelled.

    October 2017


    Photographer: Ruud Leeuw

    11 November 2023


    Photographer: Cassidy Cristello
    Notes: More graffiti has since been added after the last photo of her was posted here, sad ending for an aircraft like a C-54.
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