Chicago & Southern Air Lines  Douglas DC-4  NC54361      (c/n  27250)

                              

                                  In 1946 Chicago & Southern was awarded an international certificate to operate from both New
                                  Orleans and Houston to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Caracas, Venezuela, with intermediate stops
                                  in Havana, Kingston, Cuidad Trujillo and Aruba.  Half a dozen DC-4s were purchased to service
                                  these routes, as well as beef up the standard on the main line route from Chicago to New Orleans.
                                  N54361 was a late model C-54B-20-DO, built for the USAAF as 44-9024 and not delivered
                                  until almost the end of the war.  When released from military duties, therefore, it was practically a
                                  brand new, low time machine.  C & S named it "City of San Juan".  It was sold in 1951 to Aerovias
                                  Brasil becoming PP-AXR.