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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-54D-15-DC Skymaster
    Last Military Serial:N-242 RDAF
    Construction Number:22192
    Last Civil Registration:N4988V
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-54D-15-DC sn N-242 RDAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:South African Airways Museum Society, Rand Airport, Johannesburg, Gauteng

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a C-54D-15-DC by Douglas at Chicago, IL.

    21 September 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-17242.

    12 October 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Danish Air Force with s/n N-242.

    2 September 1978

    To STS Enterprises Inc with new c/r N4988V.

    20 December 1978

    To Millardair with new c/r C-GRYY.

    Withdrawn from use.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

    March 1991

    To Interocean Airways with new c/r C9-ATS.

    January 2000

    To Phoebus Apollo Aviation with new c/r ZS-PAJ.

    17 April 2003

    To unknown owner with c/r N4988V.

    12 January 2006

    To South African Airways Museum Society, Rand Airport, Johannesburg, Gauteng.
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    Placed on display.

    31 March 2011

    Civil registration, N4988V, cancelled.

    26 April 2014


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