Academy 1/144 USAF C-54 Skymaster Model Kit

The Douglas C-54 Skymaster was a four-engine transport aircraft developed from the civilian DC-4, designed to provide long-range heavy transport for the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War Two. Used extensively in the Pacific, European, and China-Burma-India theatres, transporting troops, equipment, and fuel, often over hostile territory.

After the war the C-54 flew sustained high-frequency supply missions in the Berlin Airlift, along with Douglas Dakota, Avro York and Short Sunderland types, and formed the basis for later long-range transport designs.

Choice of markings for 6 aircraft

• C-54 of the ATC (Air Transport Command), USAF, 1943.
• C-54 of the ATC (Air Transport Command), USAF, 1944-45.
• VC-54C Sacred Cow, the first U.S. presidential aircraft, used for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s flight to the Yalta Conference in Crimea in 1945.
• C-54B EW-999 (43-14126), used for the flight of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Sir Winston Churchill, to the Yalta Conference in 1945.
• VC-54E 44-9027, "Bataan II", personal flight of 1st Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, General Douglas McArthur, used for his arrival in Japan, 1945.
• Air America, C-54G N2168, operated on regional missions between Korea, Japan, and Vietnam during the early 1960s.