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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-4-1009
    Last Military Serial:KX-02 FABe
    Construction Number:42987
    Last Civil Registration:G-AZSI
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-4-1009 sn KX-02 FABe cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:A. J. Walker Aviation Ltd

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    Dates

    Event

    1946

    Constructed as a DC-4-1009.

    21 May 1946

    To Det Danske Luftfartselskab with new c/r OY-DFO.

    From 2 September 1946 to 29 January 1954

    To Scandinavian Airlines System keeping c/r OY-DFO.


    Photographer: Leslie Jones

    Civil registration OO-SBL {1} reserved but not taken up.

    18 May 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Force Arienne Belge with s/n KX-02 and operated with these markings: OT-CWV.

    Civil registration LN-TUR {2} reserved but not taken up.
    For Norwegian Overseas Airways.

    11 April 1972

    To A. J. Walker Aviation Ltd with new c/r G-AZSI (DOUGLAS DC-4, 42987).

    Scrapped.
    At Southend -for Carvair program - fuselage used for fire practice.

    16 January 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: DC-4 in the Civil Aviation Authority Fire Training Schools compound at Stansted, Essex in January 1977.

    16 January 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: DC-4 in the Civil Aviation Authority Fire Training Schools compound at Stansted, Essex in January 1977.
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