244. G-ASFY Douglas DC-4 Air Ferry LPL 10FEB65

Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 23-Feb-15, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 31-Aug-23.

Built as a C-54A, this aircraft was delivered to the USAAF in Jun-44 as 42-72230. After the war, it was bought back by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Jun-46 and converted to civilian DC-4 standard (conversion No:23).

It was bought by Pan-Am in Mar-47 as N88922 'Clipper Radiant'. It was operated in Europe on Pan-Am's West German network connecting West Berlin to the rest of West Germany in the late 1940's and through the 1950's, being renamed 'Clipper Nurnberg' and later 'Clipper Dusseldorf'.

In Jun-60 it was sold to Balair, Switzerland, as HB-ILC. In Mar-63 it moved to the UK when it was sold to Air Ferry Ltd as G-ASFY. The aircraft served with Air Ferry until Nov-68 when it was bought by International Aviation Development as N3454 and sold on to LAVCO in Feb-69.

It was withdrawn from use at the old Hal Far Airport on Malta in 1979 and broken up soon after.

I also have a photo of this aircraft with LAVCO as N3454 at...
www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/5561801213

Taken on: February 10, 1965

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