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1945 |
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Constructed as a C-54E-15-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA. |
30 May 1945 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-9144. |
30 May 1945 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 90414 as a R5D-4R and operated with these markings: QF-414. |
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Photographer: Clay Jansson |
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Converted to a C-54R. |
1975 |
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To AAAP Company Inc with new c/r N48163. |
1977 |
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To AAAP Company Inc with new c/r N904DS. |
February 1978 |
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To Millardair with new c/r C-GQIB.
Operated with markings: The Sky Trader |
21 February 1980 |
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Photographer: Caz Caswell |
17 April 1985 |
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Photographer: Caz Caswell
Notes: Seen with TWA titles for a movie |
July 1985 |
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Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
Notes: 1985 photo of a Douglas C-54E (DC-4) of Millardair at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport |
10 July 1990 |
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To Omni Aviation and Associates with new c/r N500EJ {1}. |
26 September 1990 |
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Certificate of airworthiness for N500EJ {1} (C54E-DC, 27370) issued. |
3 September 1991 |
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Photographer: Paul Hooper
Notes: Photographed at Pontiac, MI. wearing Z Air Transport titles on the nose. |
31 August 1992 |
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Photographer: Caz Caswell
Notes: N500EJ just applied and wearing Air Transport tiles on the forward section |
15 December 1994 |
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To Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation, Farmingdale, NJ keeping c/r N500EJ {1}. |
14 June 1996 |
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Photographer: Caz Caswell
Notes: N500EJ visiting the Hamilton Airshow |
15 June 1996 |
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Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photographed at the Hamilton International Air Show at Mount Hope, Ontario. |
15 June 1996 |
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Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photographed at the Hamilton International Air Show at Mount Hope, Ontario. |
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Based at Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation, Monmouth Executive Airport, Farmingdale, NJ.
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4 May 2008 |
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Photographer: Robert Bourlier
Notes: MacDill Airfest, MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL. |
8 August 2008 |
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Photographer: Mike Henniger
Notes: Photographed at Thunder Over Michigan at the Yankee Air Force Museum in Ypsilanti, MI. |
25 September 2016 |
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Still touring the US as a memorial to the Berlin Airlift. |
5 April 2017 |
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Photographer: Robert Bourlier
Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL. |
13 April 2020 |
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Damaged.
Damaged by a tornado at Lowcountry Regional Airport (RBW), Walterboro, GA. |
5 October 2020 |
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Civil registration, N500EJ {1}, cancelled. |
8 September 2023 |
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Photographer: Doug Campbell
Notes: The C-54 Spirit of Freedom off the patio of the Aviator Brewery Pub at 209 Technology Park Lane in Fuquay-Varina, NC. It will be moved once more when it gets refurbished and settled into its new Aviator Brewing Company site in downtown Fuquay-Varina. |
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