Engineering work and restoration of the HARS Douglas C54/DC4 is now well underway. The Douglas was build in 1944 and as you would expect – for a 66 year old aircraft – it needs some tender love and care. The historic four engined airliner was donated to HARS in June of 2008, having not flown for the last 6 years [...]
The HARS DC4 completed a successful ferry flight on Monday the 21st December 2009, arriving on time to its new home in Albion Park, NSW. HARS members and visitors were in attendance for the arrival. The DC4 adds to the HARS collection a truly unique and interesting part of Australia’s aviation history.
HARS members, Mike De La Hunty, Trevor Wallace, Bill Smith, Clive Gibbons, John Fields, Don Binskin and Ron braved the drenching rain and monsoonal weather in Brisbane to continue progress on the HARS DC-4. Due to the excessive rain and water, members occupied their time with the recovery of the DC-4 spares inventory. With the assistance of some careful fork-lift operation in [...]
Manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company Inc. at Santa Monica and delivered to the U.S.A.A.F. on 14/5/1945 seeing war service as 44-9126. The only difference with this aircraft from the other types was that it had a different fuel tank arrangement whereby the cabin tanks were replaced by collapsible bag tanks in the wing. Whilst in service with the U.S.A.A.F. [...]
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