Eastern Air Lines  Douglas DC-3-454   N15567                 (c/n  6342)

                                          

                                                 In 1949 "The Great Silver Fleet" legend was replaced with "Fly - Eastern Air Lines".    This
                                                 machine was built in 1942, ostensibly as an airline aircraft (was to have been NC30045) but
                                                 in the event was "drafted" into the U.S. Army Air Corps as a C-49J (43-1986).  After WW II
                                                 it became N15567, using a block of numbers which had previously not been issued.