Originally built as a Douglas C-54E-10-DC

Delivered to U.S.A.A.F. - becoming 44-9088 - April 7, 1945

Sold to Douglas for conversion to DC-4 standard - November 14, 1945

Sold to Pan American World Airways Inc - December 23, 1945

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as NC88881

Aircraft was originally named 'Clipper Kit Carson'

Was later named 'Clipper Golden West' and then 'Clipper Red Rover'

Sold to Japan Air Lines - February 15, 1958

Entered onto Japanese Aircraft Register as JA-6015

Aircraft was named 'Amagi'

Sold to Ansett-A.N.A. for use as a freighter - March 18, 1965

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-INM - March 19, 1965

Departed Tokyo on delivery flight to Melbourne - March 23, 1965

Arrived Melbourne's Essendon Airport at conclusion of delivery flight - March 25, 1965

Leased to M.M.A. freighter for short periods - 1965

Withdrawn from use for conversion to Aviation Traders ATL-98A Carvair freighter - 1968

Arrived Southend at conclusion of delivery flight on delivery flight - March 1, 1968

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - April 16, 1968

Re-flown as a ATL-98 Carvair - July 12, 1968

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as an ATL-98 - VH-INM - July 16, 1968

Departed Stansted on delivery flight to Australia - July 19, 1968

Arrived at Melbourne's Essendon Airport at conclusion of delivery flight - July 26, 1968

Delivery route: Athens-Damascus-Bahrain-Karachi-Calcutta-Bangkok-Singapore-Denpasar-Darwin

Repainted into the Ansett Airlines of Australia Air Cago 'delta' livery - January 1971

Operated its last freighter service - February 1, 1973

Placed in storage at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport

Sold to Australian Aircrat Sales Pty Ltd - January 1, 1974

Leased to PT Seulawah Air Services - July 1975

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to Seletar Airport, Singapore - July 7, 1975

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - August 28, 1975

Did not enter service with Seulawah and was returned to A.A.S.

Stored at Seletar Airport

Sold to James A. Cunningham - March 1978

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N54596

Departed Brisbane on ferry flight to Wellington via Auckland - November 28, 1978

Leased to Nationwide Air - November 1978

Entered onto New Zealand Aircraft Register as ZK-NWB

When Nationwide ceased trading it was placed in storage at Nelson, New Zealand - April 1979

Sold to Turner Aviation - December 21, 1982

Sold to Pacific Aerolift Cargo - ferried to Hamilton for complete overhaul - 1983

Aircraft was named 'Ruth 2'

Pacific Aerolift did not commence operations with this aircraft

Sold to Hawaii Pacific Air Inc - July, 1990

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N5459M

Placed in storage at Honolulu when Hawaii Pacific ceased operations - January 1993

Sold to Air Cargo Hawaii - March, 1992

Sold to Roberts Hawaii Inc - September 1993

Sold to Airline Marketing Consultants Inc - July 29, 1996

Leased to Wonderair, Wonderboom, Rand, South Africa - November 1996

Aircraft placed in open storage at Rand

Returned to Airline Marketing Consultants Inc - September 1997

Flown from Wonderboom-Johannesburg-Kinshasa in an all-white livery - November 5, 2000

Sold to Phoebus Apollo Investments - March 2002

Restored to airworthy condition and repainted in new Phoebus livery - April 2002

Cancelled from U.S. Aircraft Register - April 30, 2002

Leased to Phoebus Apollo Aviation - May 20, 2002

Entered onto Zambian Aircraft Register as 9J-PAA

Entered service briefly, but then placed in storage at Johannesburg

Restored to taxiing status for Phoebus Apollo Aviation staff party - early 2005

Flown from Johannesburg - Rand for continued storage - June 25, 2005

Listed as active - 2005

JA-6015. Japan Air Lines - in the full livery at Tokyo Airport, October 1963.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-533.)

VH-INM. Ansett-ANA - in basic J.A.L. livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, February 1965.

(G. Bennett Collection. 1125-360.)

VH-INM. Ansett-ANA 'Cargomaster' - in the full livery at Launceston Airport, March 1966.

(B. Dannecker Collection. 1125-269.)

VH-INM. Ansett-ANA Air Cargo - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, May 1969.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1125-270.)

VH-INM. Ansett-ANA Air Cargo - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, June 1969.

(P. J. Gates Photograph. 1125-190.)

VH-INM. Ansett-ANA Air Cargo - in the original livery at Brisbane Airport, August 1970.

(E. D. Daw Photograph. 1125-491.)

VH-INM. Ansett-ANA Air Cargo - in the full full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, November 1970.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1125-271.)

VH-INM. Ansett-ANA Air Cargo - in their full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(G. Bennett Photograph. 1125-357.)

VH-INM. Ansett-ANA Air Cargo - in the full livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(G. Bennett Collection. 1125-356.)

VH-INM. Ansett Air Cargo - in the 'delta' livery at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, October 1972.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-484.)

VH-INM. Ansett Air Cargo - in the 'delta' livery at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, May 1973.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-019.)

VH-INM. Seulawah Air 'Air Cargo' - in basic Ansett 'delta' livery at Melbourne Airport, July 1975.

(R. N. Smith Photograph. 1125-272.)

VH-INM. Seulawah Air 'Air Cargo' - in basic Ansett 'delta' livery at Melbourne Airport, July 1975.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1125-211.)

ZK-NWB. Nationwide Air - in the full livery at Nelson Airport, January 1979.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-167.)

ZK-NWB. Nationwide Air - in the full livery at Auckland Airport, April 1979.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-168.)

ZK-NWB. Nationwide Air - in the full livery at Nelson Airport, February 1981.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-274.)

ZK-NWB. Hawaii Pacific Air - in the full livery at Wellington Airport, date unknown.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-213.)

N5459M. Hawaii Pacific Air - in the full livery at Honolulu, January 1995.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-275.)

N5459M. Hawaii Pacific Air - in the full livery at Honolulu, September 1996.

(G. Bennett Collection. 1125-408.)

N5459M. Hawaii Pacific Air - in the full livery at Johannesburg, December 1996.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-276.)

N5459M. Phoebus Apollo - in the full livery at Johannesburg, April 2002.

(R. N. Smith Collection. 1125-199.)

9J-PAA. Phoebus Apollo - in the full livery at Johannesburg, June 2002.

(P. J. Gates Collection. 1125-157.)