Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 03-Feb-15.
Noooo! Don't stick your head in it's mouth, it'll bite!
This aircraft was an early Douglas C-54 delivered to the US Army Air Forces in Feb-43 as 41-37272. It was sold to the US Civil Aviation Administration in 1946 as N79000.
Over the next few years it passed through a number of American airlines, Eastern Airlines, Apr-51. Northwest Airlines, Jun-55. Transocean Air Lines, Feb-58. World Airways, 1959. President Airlines, Oct-60.
In May-61 it was sold to Continentale in Germany as D-ADAM. Aviation Traders bought it in Jul-63. It was converted to an ATL.98 Carvair and delivered to British United Air Ferries in Feb-64.
BUAF was renamed British Air Ferries in Oct-67. In Jun-76 the aircraft was sold to a construction company in Gabon, West Africa, as TR-LWP. It was retired at Brazzaville, Congo in 1978 and was broken up there 8 years later in May-86.
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