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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-7 Seven Seas / C-74 Globemaster I / C-124 Globemaster II
    Latest Model:C-124C Globemaster II
    Last Military Serial:51-0089 USAF
    Construction Number:43423
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-124A-DL by Douglas at Long Beach, CA, USA.

    Circa 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-0089.

    Converted to a C-124C by Douglas at Long Beach, CA, USA.

    By 1973

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    From 1973 to 1986

    Placed on display with Confederate Air Force, Harlingen, TX.

    Circa 1973


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Harlingen, Texas

    28 October 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This C-124C Globemaster of the 945th Military Airlift Group was on display at the Harlingen Headquarters of the Confederate Air Force in 1979.

    Loaned to WR-ALC/MU, Robins AFB, GA.

    1986

    Transported by air. Delivered to Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, GA.
    Airfreighted to Robins AFB by a C-5A.
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    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 0-10089
    Finished in the markings of the Air Material Command.

    By April 1988


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at the Museum of Aviation, Macon, GA.

    12 March 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    July 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    14 March 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    18 February 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, Georgia, United States

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    17 July 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Museum of Aviation, Warner-Robins, GA.


    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Internet Sources
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall

    Individual Contributors
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols

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