The Douglas DC-4 Association
of South Africa
Individual Aircraft History
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Further reading on this aircraft is on the
Australian Airliners (AussieAirliners) website here http://www.aussieairliners.org/dc-4/vh-inm/vhinm.html
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 THE CARVAIR SAGA CONTINUES. Fieldair Holdings engineer Pat Monk prepares to work on the right outer Pratt and Whitney R2000 of Carvair ZK-NWB during checks at the company's Palmerston North engineering base. An option had been secured by an Australian company on the two freight aircraft but this has since lapsed. WINGS understands that interest is still high for the Bass Strait freight project to go ahead.
The big
P&W R2000 is a relative rarity in New Zealand, the two Carvairs
being the only thus engined aircraft in the country apart from the
occasional visiting RAAF Caribou. Pat, with Fieldair since 1972, has
spent much of his time on radial engines; the company having
standardised on Beavers and DC-3s. WINGS
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NC88881 began life as a C-54E with the USAF in April 1945, was converted to civil airliner status by Douglas in late November and sold to PAWA the following month. The DC-4 was sold to Japan Airlines Ltd as JA6015 Amagi In February 1958 and subsequently to Ansett-ANA as VHINM in March 1965 for conversion to an ATL-98 Carvair iin the UK. Leased to Seulawah Air Services by Australian Aircraft Sales from January 1975 to August 1976, the big freighter was stored at Singapore until sold to Nationwide Air by James Cunningham as ZK-NWB. Flown to
NZ in November 1978, it saw little use within NZ; instead spending
most of its time in storage at Nelson and Hamilton before being sold
and delivered to Hawaii in May 1990 for Hawaiian Pacific Air. WINGS
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