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SKYMASTER/42-72749



Serial #: 42-72749
Construction #: 10854
Civil Registration:
  N44915
Model(s):
  C-54D-15-DC
  R5D-3
  C-54Q
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last Info: 2003
  History:
Delivered to U.S. Navy as 52528, 19??-1964.
- Used in Operation Deep Freeze.
- First aircraft to land on wheels at McMurdo Sound Dec 20, 1955.
- Retired to Litchfield Park, AZ, Dec. 1964.
Biegert Aviation (later FARWEST), Phoenix, AZ, 1976-2003.
- Registered as N44915.
- Based as spray aircraft, Chandler, AZ.
- Stored, Chandler Memorial, AZ, circa 1988-2003.

Source(s):
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2004.
Joe Baugher's Serial Numbers Page, home.att.net/~jbaugher/
Cactus Wings
Photo Source(s):
Ralph M. Pettersen / www.conniesurvivors.com via Airliners.Net.