On this day in 1974, after 29 years of active service, the US Navy retired its last Douglas C-54 Skymaster (DC-4), actually the one operated by the Navy Test Pilot School at Patuxent River. It had been flown for almost 15,000hr in which it covered more than 3 million miles.

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

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Monday, April 1, 2019

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