SE-BBF  Douglas DC-4-1009                  (c/n  42929)

                                      

                                          This excellent shot of a DC-4 just beginning its let down to landing came from SAS in the late
                                          1950s.  By this time the aircraft had been renamed "Sverver Viking" from its original "Vastan"
                                          when first delivered to AB Aerotransport in 1946.  A photograph of it in that guise appears
                                          below.   In 1948 SAS operated its DC-4s on trans-Atlantic services.  Flight 1690 left Stock-
                                          holm Bromma at 18.00 hrs on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays and arrived at New York's
                                          La Guardia Airport at 16.00 hrs the following afternoon.  Allowing for the time difference this
                                          nevertheless represented an unpressurized trip of some 28 hours, with intermediate stops in Oslo
                                          (Norway), Prestwick (Scotland) and Gander (Newfoundland).    SE-BBF was sold to Avianca
                                          in 1955 as HK-174.