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    The Douglas C-54 Skymaster is a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War. Like the...
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    This is a list of operators of the Douglas DC-4, Douglas C-54, Canadair North Star and Douglas R5D.  Aden Aden AirwaysNote 1  Algeria Air Algerie  Antigua...
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    orders for the airlines and allocated them the designation C-54 Skymaster. The first C-54 flew from Clover Field in Santa Monica, California, on 14 February...
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    On 26 January 1950, the Douglas C-54 Skymaster serial number 42-72469 disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana, with 44 people aboard. The aircraft...
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    DC-4-1037 Postwar freight model. DC-4A Civilian model designation for the C-54 Skymaster. DC-4M-1X North Star The initial prototype that was later part of the...
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    Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter Bristol Britannia Canadair CC-109 Cosmopolitan Convair C-131 Samaritan Douglas C-54 Skymaster Douglas...
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    XC-99 Douglas C-54 Skymaster Douglas C-118 Liftmaster Douglas C-124 Globemaster II Lockheed C-69 Constellation Lockheed C-121 Constellation Lockheed C-130...
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    in which the C-47 played a major role until the aircraft were replaced by Douglas C-54 Skymasters.[citation needed] In Europe, the C-47 and a specialized...
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  • AC-47 Spooky Douglas XCG-17 Douglas C-54 Skymaster (1942) Douglas C-74 Globemaster (1945) Douglas C-124 Globemaster II (1949) Douglas C-132 (1957, canceled)...
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    involved in the Berlin Airlift, foremost the four-engined Douglas C-54 Skymaster and the Douglas C-47 Skytrain. Marshall Plan History of Berlin Cherny, Andrei...
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  • design Cessna O-2 Skymaster, an American military aircraft design Douglas C-54 Skymaster, an American military aircraft design Skymaster (ride), a pendulum...
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    The Douglas C-133 Cargomaster is an American large turboprop cargo aircraft built between 1956 and 1961 by the Douglas Aircraft Company for use with the...
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    convoys in the Atlantic were facing due to U-boat attacks. The Douglas C-54 Skymaster planned for these roles wasn't completely capable. So on September...
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    and was designed so that it could be transported underneath a Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft, although its dimensions also allowed it to fit...
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    1960-1963 Douglas C-54 Skymaster 1965-1967 Cessna U-3A 1969-1972 Lockheed C-121 Constellation 1969-1972 Cessna O-2B Skymaster 1974 Convair C-131 Samaritan...
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    going on ... MacArthur flew over the front line himself in his Douglas C-54 Skymaster but saw no signs of a Chinese build up and therefore decided to...
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  • Douglas A-1 Skyraider Douglas A-26 Invader Douglas C-47 Skytrain Douglas C-54 Skymaster List of Douglas DC-4 operators List of Douglas DC-4 variants McDonnell...
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    "proper glide". The Douglas DC-4 appears in the Ernest K. Gann novel The High and the Mighty. A former USAF Douglas C-54 Skymaster operated by Transocean...
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  • the same spot. November 13 – In the 1950 Tête de l'Obiou C-54 crash, a Douglas C-54 Skymaster operated by Curtiss Reid Flying Services crashed 30 miles...
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    As Douglas C-54 Skymasters took over the Gander to Prestwick route, the C-75s operated between Marrakech and Prestwick over the Atlantic. ICD C-75s crossing...
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  • Douglas C-54 Skymaster 2 1945 1959 Douglas C-54A Skymaster 16 Douglas C-54B Skymaster 3 Douglas DC-2 19 1934 1946 Douglas DC-3 58 1936 1964 Douglas DC-4...
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    operations on behalf of the U.S. Air Transport Command (ATC), using Douglas C-54 Skymasters mainly between the US and military bases in North Africa. AEA could...
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  • fleet initially consisted of three Douglas C-47 Dakotas, two Douglas C-54 Skymasters, two Douglas DC-6Bs and one Douglas DC-6B freighter (later sold to LAC...
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    Air. Former aircraft used include the amphibious Canadair CL-215, the Douglas C-54/DC-4, and the Canso PBY-5. Buffalo's aviation school offers an aircraft...
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    Skytrain and Douglas DC-3 Fairchild C-82 Packet Lockheed C-121A Constellation Douglas C-47 Skytrain Douglas C-74 Globemasters A Douglas C-54 Skymaster, called...
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    Latin American countries. The C-87 was scrapped in 1945. The Secret Service subsequently reconfigured a Douglas C-54 Skymaster for presidential transport...
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  • C54 (redirect from C 54)
    Navy Caldwell 54, an open cluster in the constellation Monoceros Douglas C-54 Skymaster, an American transport aircraft Giuoco Piano, a chess opening JNR...
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  • were killed and the aircraft was written off. On February 5, 1969, a Douglas C-54 (registered HK-1065) was hijacked by an armed passenger. The aircraft...
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  • Transport Douglas C-54 Skymaster - Transport Douglas C-110 - ex-Dutch Douglas DC-5 transport Douglas O-31 - Observation aircraft Douglas O-43 - Observation...
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    crashing an improperly loaded C-87 into the Taj Mahal. As soon as more dependable Douglas C-54 Skymaster and Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando transports became...
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