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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:41-32949 USAAF
    Construction Number:03124
    Last Civil Registration:N88748
    Latest Owner or Location:Commercial Aircraft Corp, New York, NY

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-54-DO by Douglas at Santa Monica, CA.
    Douglas C-54-DO 3124

    2 November 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-32949.

    1946

    To Pennsylvania Central Airlines with c/r N88748.

    Converted to a DC-4.

    21 April 1948

    To Capital Airlines.
    Markings added: Capitaliner Akron, 417

    1950


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Midway Airport

    1 June 1961

    To United Air Lines.

    22 August 1961

    To Sam Goldman.

    29 November 1962

    To Commercial Aircraft Corp, New York, NY.

    1965

    To Charlotte Aircraft Corporation.

    1966

    To Commercial Aircraft Corp, New York, NY.

    1966

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Wilmington, North Carolina.

    12 June 1970

    Civil registration, N88748, cancelled.


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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

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    Terry Fletcher

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