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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:DC-4-1009
    Last Military Serial:6905 SAAF
    Construction Number:42984
    Last Civil Registration:HB-ILI {2}
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-4-1009 sn 6905 SAAF cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:South African Airways Museum Society, Rand Airport, Johannesburg, Gauteng

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    Dates

    Event

    1946

    Constructed as a DC-4-1009.

    10 May 1946

    To South African Airways with new c/r ZS-AUB.
    Operated with markings: Outeniqua

    From 1966 to 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n 6905.

    From 1967 to 1967

    To Trek Airways with new c/r ZS-AUB.

    From 29 September 1967 to Circa 1995

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n 6905.

    16 August 1995


    Photographer: Tim Spearman
    Notes: At Waterkloof AFB, South Africa

    1 January 1997

    To Swissair with new c/r HB-ILI {2}.
    Summer lease to celebrate 50 years of Trans-Atlantic service.

    2 May 1997


    Photographer: Rolf Wallner

    August 1997


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 1997 photo at Zurich, Switzerland - Swissair leased this a/c from SAA-Historic flight (ZS-AUB /Outeniqua) to celebrate the anniversary of 50 years SWISSAIR transatlantic flights after WW2 with sightseeing flights all over Europe and attending at airshows.

    21 July 2000


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: ZS-AUB Douglas DC-4 South African AirwaysImmaculately preserved, the beautiful vintage DC-4 lines-up for a pleasure flight on the Friday preceding RIAT.

    Based at South African Airways Museum Society, Rand Airport, Johannesburg, Gauteng.
    Operated with markings: ZS-AUB
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    26 April 2014


    Photographer: Mike Ward
    Notes: 2014 photo taken at Rand Airport, Germiston, South Africa
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