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N88747 on the ramp. (Lawrence Smalley)
N86557 deplaning passengers in San Diego. (Thomson Productions)

PSA bought two ex-Capital DC-4's in 1954, as the airline grew in popularity. The DC-4 offered more comfort than the DC-3, and held twice as many passengers. All four were retired from scheduled service in 1959, but some held on to perform charters until 1961. Jim Patterson recalls his first flight with the airline being in one of these airplanes, with a bunch of Indians at Winslow, Arizona...

The fleet statistics listed below are from PSA archives. They do not correspond with what I have seen in production list books. In this case, I have elected to use PSA data over the production list data.

Fleet Information
FLN REG TYPE MSN LN HISTORY
267N93267C-54A7476DO84US Navy 3/25/44-5/29/47
Colonial Airways 'Skycruiser America' 5/47-6/1/56
PSA, 6/56-4/62
Mercer Enterprises, 4/62-12/69
Can. Arctic Co-op C-FQIX 12/69
Air Commonwealth /70, WFU Winnipeg
DBF Thompson, Manitoba, Canada 6/1/79
557N86557C-543119DC9US Army Air Force 9/30/42-/46
Capital /46-11/55 'Capitaliner Harrisburg'
PSA 11/55-2/60
Stewart Air Services 2/12/60-/65
Blatz Airlines /65, WFU /70
BU Chico, CA 2/76
68N30068DC-410288DC19US Army Air Force, 3/8/44-3/31/47
United 'Cargoliner Cape Cod' 4/47-7/27/56
Giles Co. LT PSA 7/27/56-11/60
Starways G-ARJY 3/61-9/19/61
DBR - overran runway
747N88747DC-43116DO6US Army Air Force 9/29/42-7/46
Capital 7/46-11/55 'Capitaliner Newark'
PSA 11/55-11/60
Starways G-ARIY 2/15/61
WFU Liverpool 7/64, BU 1965

 

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