Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA)   Douglas DC-4  N93267   (c/n 7476)

                                                                        

                                            By the mid 1950s, PSA's cheap fares had attracted load factors greater than the DC-3s could
                                            handle and four DC-4s were acquired from Capital Airlines.  The above image is from the Jon
                                            Proctor collection, whilst William T. Larkins caught N88747 on a rain swept Oakland ramp in
                                            the late 1950s.  PSA was one of the DC-4 operators who took to painting square surrounds
                                            framing the portholes of their aircraft to give the impression, to the uninitiated, that the machine
                                            in which they were about to embark was a  DC-6!    Several airlines succumbed to this ploy.
                                            Anyway, N93267 went to Canada in 1969 as CF-QIX and was finally destroyed by fire at
                                            Thompson, Manitoba on 1 June 1979.  N88747, an ex C-54-DO was sold off in 1960 and
                                            went to Starways in the U.K. as G-ARIY.   Its ultimate fate was as a fire fighting training hulk
                                            at Liverpool's Speke Airport in the mid 1960s.

                                          Douglas DC-4  N88747   (c/n  3116)