Very nice!



Thank you!

Let's see:

USAAF Air Transport Command (ATC) was in existence from 1942-1947.

It became the USAF Military Air Transport Service (MATS) from 1948-1965.

In 1966, MATS became the USAF Military Airlift Command (MAC).

Today it is known as the Air Mobility Ciommand.

That should help us place various skins in the timeline. 

ATC insignia below was previously used by the USAAF Ferry Command from 1941-1942.

A little more info...

The DC-4 made it's first test flight in 1938 and was in production from 1942 until 1946.

The ATC skin that Kristensen did and that I posted was an aircraft that was flying The Hump in 1945.   Her tail number beginning in 0 indicates she was contracted for in 1940.....one of the early production aircraft.

Some of the other skins here have tail numbers that are puzzling to me in that the contract years don't seem to jibe with the contract and production span. 

For example, the two MATS skins begin with 7 and 9.  They could refer to '37 and '39, though that seems a bit early for a contract, and '47/'49 is outside possibility....unless these are DC-6 or DC-7 skins adapted to the DC-4.   However, I may be making some silly mistake.  Checking further. 

OMG!  OMG!  I've turned into a 'rivet-counter', or rather a 'tail-number-tracker'....a fate worse than death.