Delivered to the USAAF as C-54D 42-72539 in 1945. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB with park code CC186 in 1970. To Aero Union as N65397 in 1976. Sold as C-GCXG in 1979 then back to N65397 in 1990. 5Y-BKG in 1995 and 9Q-CLM then EL-WLS n 1996. Impounded in Angola in 1998. Seen stored at Luanda in 2006. Scrapped by 2012.

Delivered to the USAAF as 42-72539, withdrawn to MASDC at Davis Monthan in 1970 and bought in 1977 by Aero Union as N65397. Sold to Soundair in Canada 1979 as C-GCXG and returned to the US in 1990 before being sold in Kenya in 1995. Registered 9Q-CLM with Transcontinental in October 1996 and joined Air Transport office in December 1996. Sold to Cargo Express Congo shortly after this photo was taken and registered as EL-WLS. Suspected of operating supply flights to UNITA rebels and impounded by the Angolan Air Force in 1998, it ended its days on the dump at Luanda and was scrapped by June 2012.

Operated by Soundair.

Captured after Aero Trades titles were removed, it is doing a run-up with take-off flap set so hopefully the steps were put away! This is about the time it was sold to Soundair at Toronto and after they'd finished with it, it ended up in Liberia.

This Aero Trades Western Skymaster sits it out on a typical 'winter-peg' day. Sold to Soundair at Toronto in 1986 then last seen as EL-WLS in 2006.

Photographed in the evening while it stopped over during a ferry flight to Kenya.

Stopping over on a ferry flight to Kenya.