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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
    Last Military Serial:44-9025 USAAF
    Construction Number:27251
    Last Civil Registration:N36AC
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-4 sn 44-9025 USAAF cn 27...
    Latest Owner or Location:C. Itoh and Company

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a C-54B-20-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.

    19 January 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-9025.

    11 October 1945

    To Douglas Aircraft Company with new c/r N86551.

    Converted to a DC-4.
    Conversion No.6.

    15 February 1946

    To United Air Lines with new c/r N30041.
    Operated with markings: Mainliner Yellowstone

    1948


    Photographer: Chicago Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: NC30041 at Chicago Midway - This was UALs first C-54 delivered in Feb46. It served with United until Dec57

    1952


    Photographer: William T Larkins

    13 December 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N36AC (C54B-DC, 27251) issued.

    14 December 1957

    To Loide Aereo Nacional with new c/r PP-LER.
    Operated with markings: Ceara

    January 1962

    To VASP keeping c/r PP-LER.


    Photographer: Lee Mullins Collection

    August 1969

    To C. Itoh and Company with new c/r N36AC.

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    And Stored at Fort Worth, TX.

    By 1980

    Scrapped.

    23 February 2011

    Civil registration, N36AC, cancelled.

    Scrapped.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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