Key facts
- Type
- Airliner / transport aircraft
- National origin
- United States
- Manufacturer
- Douglas Aircraft Company
- Status
- In very limited use
- Primary users
- South African Airways Museum Society United Airlines (historical), American Airlines (historical), Trans World Airlines (historical), Buffalo Airways (historical)
- Number built
- 80 DC-4 and 1,163 C-54/R5D
- Manufactured
- 1942 – August 1947
- Introduction date
- 1942 with United Airlines
- First flight
- 14 February 1942 (production series)
- Variants
- C-54 Skymaster , Canadair North Star
- Developed into
- Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair , Douglas DC-6
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Douglas DC-4 is an American four-engined (piston), propeller-driven airliner developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Military versions of the plane, the C-54 and R5D, served during World War II, in the Berlin Airlift and into the 1960s. From 1945, many civil airlines operated the DC-4 worldwide.
Design and development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Douglas DC-4” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.