I-DALU Douglas DC-4
(c/n 10381)
Fortunately this DC-4 is carrying the
rego on the nose wheel door, although I could probably have
identified it by its "Citta de
Palermo" name. This C-54A-15-DC (42-72276)
was the 27th
Douglas post war conversion to DC-4 standard, and was sold to Pan
American in 1947 becoming
N88926
"Clipper Twilight". Alitalia acquired it in
1950. It had a really checkered career after
that and
I'll attempt to reconstruct it in tabular form.
Date
Registration
Owner
Notes
1954
N1435V
California
Eastern Air
Lines
US "non-sked"
1955
"
Viking
Airlines
"
1956
"
Twentieth Century
Airlines
"
1957
"
Central Air
Transport
The Chinese one?
1957
"
Transocean Air Lines
Leaseed
from CAT for 3 months
1957
"
Central Air
Transport
Back off lease
1960
F-BJBX
UAT
Purchased
1960
"
Air Afrique
Leased from UAT
1962
TU-TBL
"
Registered in Tunisia
1963
F-BJBX
UAT
Back on
the French register
1963
TU-TCC
Air Afrique
Couldn't make up their minds
1964
F-BJBX
UAT
Off lease again
1965
TU-TXC
Air
Afrique
Leased for the third time - had to be some
accounting
shenanigans here
1965
F-BJBX
UAT
WFU by UAT then sold to RAI
1968
"
RAI
Operated until 1971 then WFU and
Broken up at Faaa, Papeete.