HL-108   Douglas DC-4-1009                                                 (c/n  43094)

                                 

                                      This DC-4 was sold to Korean National Airlines in October 1953, which is when Bill Larkins
                                      photographed it at Oakland where it had just been repainted from its California Eastern livery.
                                      Delivered new to ARAMCO as N1625 in March 1947, it spent five years as an executive
                                      courier to Saudi Arabia before being sold to California Eastern Airlines in December of 1952.
                                      Looks like that carrier may have acquired it to merely flip it for profit.   These post war-built
                                      DC-4s were much sought after in the late 1940s.       It was merged into Korean Air Lines in
                                      1962 when that nationalized carrier was formed.