Scan of a sharp and clean original slide. Photographer not known.

US Air Force 42-72343 C-54 was later operated by C&S Chicago And Southern Air Lines as NC88819 until withdrawn in 1951. Flown by Resort Airlines as N88819, the aircraft was bought by Aer Lingus and converted to ATL-98 Carvair EI-AMR in 1963. Sold to Eastern Provincial Airways in 1968 to operate passenger and freight flights in Eastern Canada. Sold to BAF British Air Ferries in 1973, the aircraft was stored at Southend, UK. It was to become LN-NAB, but the sale fell through and it was broken up in 1978. The cockpit section was saved and preserved at Beccles Suffolk (Halesworth Airfield).

Carvair cockpit, to be found on Sparrowhawk Road, on the perimeter of Halesworth, ex USAAF WWII base. It has since been moved off-site for restoration.

One of Aer Lingus' three Carvairs undergoing cold weather modification for Eastern Provincial Airways to whom it had been sold as CF-EPV. It first flew as such just sixteen days later on 21st May 1968.

Built for USAAF as C-54B Skymaster 42-72353. Converted to Carvair in 1963 for Aer Lingus as EI-AMR. Owned by Eastern Provincial Airways from May 1968 and later stored at Southend for several years before scrapping.

Taxying to Runway 06 on return to Dublin with Cargo. Served ALT from 29 April 1963 until sale to Eastern Provincial as CF-EPV on 24.05.68 after a period of storage.