TF-ISE Douglas DC-4
(c/n 10378)
The name "Gullfaxi" ('Golden Horse') gives
the identity of
this DC-4 as TF-ISE. Iceland Airways
was the
trading name for
Flugfelag Islands, founded in 1937 with a Waco floatplane. After WW II
the
company began
international routes from Reykjavik to Stockholm and Copenhagen via
Prestwick,
Scotland. TF-ISE
was a
former C-54A-15-DC (42-72273) and was civilianized for Phillippine
Air-
lines in 1946 (as
PI-C101). Icelandair acquired it in 1948. The above
photograph was taken
at
Stockholm's
Bromma
Airport in 1949, whilst the less than illustrious shot below shows it
in flight
over
Iceland. In 1958 it was
sold in South Africa as
ZS-CJA.