Buffalo Air C-54A Skymaster
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- Buffalo Air Ltd, Douglas C-54A-1-DO Skymaster C-GPSH (cn 7458) 'Freighter Arctic Distributor' gets all her four Pratt & Whitney R-2000 engines running smoothly prior to a weekly cargo flight up North. (date: June 1998)
This is the oldest airwourthy DC-4 in the world...(not sure she flies anymore due to her accident back in Dec 2006). A/c history: Built as 41-107439 for the United States Army Air Force and was delivered on the 6 January 1944. She was then transferred to Reconstruction Finance Corporation during 1945 as N90414. She was used by American Airlines as 'Flagship America" a year later. During April 1949 she was went to Aircraft Sales Ltd. Sold to Qantas as VH-EBN and flew as "Guinea Trader"
In 1958 she was leased by Malayan Airways as VR-SEA and received the name 'Albatross" Returned again to Qantas this time as VH-EDN and received yet another name on her nose this time "Pacific Trader". Registered as VH-EBD during July 1961. Later on that year the name 'Norfolk Trader" was given to the Skymaster. She was wfu and stored at Sydney Airport during 1977. Then she was bought by Air Express as "Tasmanian Tiger" later on that same year. During 1980 she was bought by Basler Flight Services and gave the C-54 the registration N5581T. Basler sold her to Calm Air International of Canada as C-GPSH during March 1982. Basler bought the a/c back during 1984 and she was wfu and stored. A year later Soundair purchased the a/c and used her for overnight courier cargo flights from Toronto and Montreal to Dayton, Ohio, on behalf of American forwarder Emery AirFreight. After the collapse of Soundair the Skymaster went to the USA as N7171H with Ernst & Young Inc. and then to International Airline Support group some time during December 1990. Buffalo Airways Ltd bought the Skymaster during January 1991 and she resumed her former Canadian register C-GPSH again.
She was badly damaged during a landing incident at Carat Lake on the 28th December 2006. she skidded of icy runway heavily damaged her nose section. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
My father had worked on C 47s , DC4s,DC6s , Globe Masters, connies, in the mid 50's. 😉😁😀🤗🤔🙄
Very lucky!
Beautiful. Thanks for not ruining it by adding music. Love the sound of those engines!! :)
Ahhhhhh the music of radials......such sweet music
C-54 with P&W R-2000-D5. I love this plane.
EXQUISITO AVION........CON MOTOR RADIAL........ NO ES NI GRANDE NI CHICO PARA LA EPOCA ( EL R-2000) Y ADEMAS ES ESQUISITO ESCUCHAR EL SONIDO DEL MOTOR // QUE NUNCA DEJE ESTE MUNDO .... MANTENGALO EN BUENAS MANOS SRES DE BUFFALO //
Very nice video. From what I have seen, the aircraft was refitted with the nose from another DC-4/C-54 - I believe she's (or will be) active again. Those Buffalo Airways mechanics can perform miracles.
DC-4s are the best airtanker out there. I worked on them with Buffalo for 4 years. Reliable, maneuverable .... you gotta love the radials!
I think that this video is GREAT because a LOVE C-54 Skymasters SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I worked on PSH some in the early 2000s and keep some contact with some of the Buffalo herd, I believe she was repaired and flyable after being damaged in 2006.
Great to see the old Girl still soldiering on.
She plied her trade the world over back in the day.
I was a US Navy Plane Captain on a R5D tail #409 from 1963 through 1965 flew 63 missions 756 flight hours, Had the time of My life a great plane these videos bring back some wonderful memories. Thank You Jim George ADR3 US Navy
Cool video, neat plane. What is the range on that aircraft?
Bom dia !!!!
Que motores fantásticos !!!!
O barulho é como música.....
Muito obrigado pelo vídeo e parabéns pelo canal......
Abraço do Brasil......
What a great piece of history.thanks for posting
muy bonito avión que lo sigan manteniendo bonito
It is interesting to see the 2 different style exhaust system on one plane, during my time with ConiFair it was a nono to mix the 2 on one aircraft.
We used to mix them all the time. Ryan and Solar manufactured with no bad results.
The ladder underneath the cockpit and the tail stand were not removed because most likely the aircraft was being repositioned somewhere else on the field and not taxiing out for takeoff therefore they didn't pose a hazard.
We never did a repo with anything attached. I'd hate to see a hard brake and have the tail settle on the tailstand. Too many things can happen, you just never know. Our AMT's had an Electra jump the chocks during a run up, #3 & 4 props were destroyed when they hit the GPU, just too lazy to pull power...
Thanks for asking Matt its about 4,250 Miles.
The engines are basically bored-out versions of the B-24's 14 cylinder engine.
This airplane C-GPSH is actually not Buffalo tanker 57 C-FIQM, you can see on the gear doors that there is 57 on there , but the registration has been painted over so they put the nose gear doors off of T57 on PSH. In the airtanker world they are adding a 4 to the old numbers to designate a heavy tanker so the Electras and DC-4s and DC-6s will be Tanker 457 or tanker 489 for example.
This was een engine test run...no need to remove the ladder..:-)
Is that Aircraft one of perimeter airlines or Air Manitoba fleet planes ...
looking at the paint scheme.
Do you guys need a door gunner or tail gunner. I can do that for you. Keep it within your budget as well.
Great, but shouldn't someone have removed the ladder hanging off the starboard side of the fuselage? Or was it fixed in place?
oh im so lucky I got to take that plane evrytime I live in hay river btw airline of the north
Ex-Qantas.
Does that ladder stay there during flight??
ladder is attached 😀😀😀😀
Hi
Are these still flying even today that are a few left of what was and is a bygone era.?
Buffalo Airways are one of the few remaining operators, yes.
@@aviationlba747 Buffalo airways doesn’t operate them anymore.
@@aviationlba747 Right, if you tell yourself so. Here's the argument between a British plane spotter versus a Canadian pilot who's flown into Yellowknife on multiple occasions.
If the Dam buster re-creation plane had 57 on the tail it would be Buffalo C-FIQM. Do you know if it had a retardant tank underneath, they could have dropped some water "bombs".
Take care!
Yeah that would be IQM with the barrel bomb setup underneath. It's OK the digital duplication they do lately of historic flights, but there is nothing like a real four engined piston pounder! Of course the Lancs and Halifaxes and lots of the real bombers had Merlins, but I'll take an air cooled radial any day! Just for trivia: the North Star was a DC-4 with Rolls Royce V-12s built by Canadair here in Canada!
I want a ramp job
I flew on that plane in 1970's with Australian QANTAS to Norfolk Island. Its history can be found here => aussieairliners.org/dc-4/vh-ebn/vhebn.html
Photo => www.flickr.com/photos/9028007@N05/3012855618
Buffalo Airways should buy a Cessna 208 Caravan or Cessna 208 Caravans for Passengers , Cargo
That is shitty video footage. Was it recorded withy a 1980's camcorder?
just heard they had a c54 go down in Alaska just after takeoff. i hope its not this one. its never a good thing when an aircraft crashes .