Braniff Douglas DC 4 Boarding and Takeoff 1949

On May 5, 1946, Braniff International Airways inaugurated the carrier's first Douglas DC-4 Skyliner four-engine propeller service between San Antonio and Chicago, with intermediate stops at Dallas Love Field and Kansas City, Missouri. The inauguration of service marked the first time that a four-engine aircraft had ever flown over the Braniff system.
Braniff's first DC-4 arrived from the Glenn L. Martin Plant in Baltimore, Maryland, where conversion from military C-54 configuration to DC-4 passenger configuration was completed and then flown to the Dallas Love Field Base on the evening of April 30, 1946. Captain R. V. Carleton piloted the historic flight that marked the arrival of the first four-engine passenger aircraft for the Dallas-based carrier. Braniff co-founder Thomas Elmer Braniff and his wife Bess Thurman Braniff, welcomed Captain Carleton and the new airliner to Dallas after the late evening arrival.
Braniff received its four-engine piston powered Douglas DC-4 aircraft from the US Government at the close of World War II in 1945, and would receive a total of ten DC-4s, including five C-54A models and five C-54B models. The DC-4s were all received during November 1945, and then converted to DC-4 passenger standards with seating for 46 passengers. The first five aircraft were registered as N65141 through N65145. An additional five C-54B models were purchased in late 1945, and registered as N59952, 86573, 86575, 88709, and N88819. Braniff operated the DC-4, along with the DC-6, in South America beginning in June 1948. The DC-4 was retired in 1953, and the fleet was sold to new owners by 1954.
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