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The production model of the four-engine Douglas DC-4 first flew on February 14, 1942 and could carry forty passengers. Over 1,000 DC-4s were used as military transports during World War II, under the designation C-54 Skymaster, and the DC-4 is still in service today. This photo shows an American Airlines DC-4 with registration number NC90404. |
Another photo of American Airlines DC-4 NC90404. |
A Delta DC-4, with registration number NC37473. |
A Braniff DC-4 Super B-Liner, with registration number NC86573. |
DC-3/C-54/RD5 SKYMASTER TRANSPORT
A nine-passenger Fairchild Model 100B Pilgrim monoplane, with registration number NC739N, in Northern Airways service. Designed by Virginius E. Clark, the Fairchild Model 100 first flew in 1930 and entered production in 1931, as the Fairchild Model 100A, of which 16 were built. Six Fairchild Model 100Bs were built for commercial service and four were built for the United States Army, which were initially designated the Y1C-24,m during their evaluation, and then the C-24, when they entered operational service. |
Originally developed as a bomber for World War I, the Farman Goliath, which carried twelve passengers, was the most widely produced twin-engine aircraft of the 1920's, and around 360 were made. |
A 1927 Fokker C-2 trimotor monoplane. The United States Army Air Corps used a Fokker C-2, named the Bird of Paradise, for the first flight from Oakland, California to Hawaii, on June 28, 1927, which lasted 25 hours and 50 minutes, and it used a Fokker C-2A, named the Question Mark, for an endurance flight, of 150 hours, 40 minutes, and 15 seconds, over southern California, between January 1st and 7th of 1929. Piloted by Major Carl Spaatz and Captain Ira C. Eaker, this airplane began its flight from Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys, California and was refueled 42 times in flight, with 9 of these refuelings occurring at night. |
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J-5/R-790 WHIRLWIND