North Weald Douglas C-54 Skymaster scrapped

More than 22 years after its September 2002 arrival at North Weald from the USA for a proposed Steven Spielberg-directed HBO film about the Berlin Airlift, Douglas C-54D Skymaster 42-72525/N44914 was scrapped at the Essex airfield during January. Its former stablemate, DC-4 44-4291/N31356 — flown from Avra Valley, west of Tucson, Arizona, to North Weald in late September 2002 for the same production — was scrapped during December 2015, the nose section going to the RAF Burtonwood Heritage Centre in