Scanned (colour) slides from my propliner archive

 

Early 2017 I bought myself a new flatbed scanner, an Epson Perfection V800 Photo and started scanning my B&W negatives, which I hadn't looked at for decades.
The scanning process will mean I will throw my negatives in the bin and keep the scans, both my aviation negatives as well as my travel negatives (colour and B&W). Can't be bothered with the hassle to make a modest pay out of it, don't want to hang on to them until my daying day.
It will take years as it is a slow process. I will do the same with my aviation slides.
Below are some of the results of my scanning, in the order of scanning, going downward - but also the ones I had done by a company, Mediafix, after I found scanning slides & negs too time consuming

B&W PAGE 1
COLOUR PAGE 1 + COLOUR PAGE 2 + COLOUR PAGE 3 + COLOUR 4

In 2025 I had again a box of slides scanned byMediafix, my 3rd; almost 100 reproduced here.
To include them here I had to edit them somewhat (using Photoshop, Topaz, Efex Pro 2), but this seems for me my way forward in terms of required time for such a scanning project of slides in my collection.
It takes a lot of time to include the historical data on these airframes.

Please note that while some slides were made by me, quite a few were made by others and collected during exchanges with correspondents. Only very few were perhaps bought (if any of these).
All images have my copyright sign but the caption will include the name of the photographer/correspondent if known (as noted on the slide frame, most documented by me at the time or by the photographer who sent me these).

 


Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
N97KC (0218), former 'Flight 97 restaurant'

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
4X-FPZ / 96 (Israel DFAF)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30307 / 307, Texas Air Guard

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30224, Arizona Air Guard (ANG)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30151 / 0151, US Air Force (USAF)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
22695, Arizona Air Guard (ANG)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
N29866, Arizona Air Guard (tailfin Utah)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
33816, U.S.Air Force (Texas ANG)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30278, Utah Air Guard (ANG)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30218 / 0218, Utah Air Guard (ANG)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
22790, U.S. Air Force

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
22694

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
N1365N, Tanker 97.

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
N1365N, Tanker 97.

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30354, U.S. Air Force (ANG)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30243, Arizona Air Guard (ANG/USAF)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30208?, Arizona Air Guard (ANG/USAF)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
22761, Arizona Air Guard (ANG/USAF)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
20883/0883, Utah Air Guard (ANG/USAF)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30348, Utah Air Guard (dubbel?)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30240 / 0240, Utah Air Guard (ANG/USAF)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30200 / 0200, Arizona Air Guard (ANG/USAF)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
22797, Rescue / U.S. Air Force

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
20841/0841, Illinois Air Guard (+30237, 30352)


Wikipedia: Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
"The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a large long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport, itself a derivative of the B-29 Superfortress.
The Stratocruiser's first flight was on 08Jul1947. Design features included passenger decks and a pressurized cabin. It could carry up to 100 passengers on the main deck plus 14 in the lower deck lounge; typical seating was for 63 or 84 passengers or 28 berthed and five seated passengers.
The Stratocruiser was larger than the Douglas DC-6 and Lockheed Constellation and cost more to buy and operate.
Its reliability was poor, mainly due to problems with the four 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial engines and structural and control problems with their propellers.
Only 55 Stratocruisers were built for airlines, along with the single prototype. One was converted into the Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy by John M. Conroy for NASA’s Gemini space program."
 


Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
22766

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
N22766 /22766 'FA?'

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
???

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30273

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
22728

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30228

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30145

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
22717

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30817

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
2759?

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
30161

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
22602

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
NC???

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
HB-ILY / 22756?

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
0-22739

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
0-20924

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
0-20905 'Wisconsin Air National Guard' (USAF)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
Curtiss C-46 201198/S-198 'Georgia Peach'

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
C-119 N8093

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
C-119, ex/ RCAF 22135

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
C-119, RCAF '06'

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
C-119, N5216R ('Tanker 136')

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
C-119, N8505A (ex/ USAF)

Propliners archive, RuudLeeuw.com / scanned slides
C-119, N3003 ('Tanker 03')

Wikipedia: Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar
"The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (Navy and Marine Corps designation R4Q) is an American military transport aircraft developed from the World War II-era Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute.
The first C-119 made its initial flight in November 1947, and by the time production ceased in 1955, more than 1.100 had been built."
 

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Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119J, 3204 (c/n 153) 11 Sqdn, RoCAF. By Benjamin Yu [Jan.1998]

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119J, 3204 (c/n 153; 51-8150) 11Sqdn/103TCS RoCAF. [no date, by Benjamin Yu]

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119G, 3120/51-8070 (c/n 10938) 102TCS/10TG RoCAF (Benjamin Yu, Jan.1998]

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119J, 3192 (c/n 123) 6 Sqdn RoCAF (Benjamin Yu, Jan.'98]

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119G, 3160/51-7985 (c/n 10724) 103TCS/10TG RoCAF [Benjamin Yu, Jan.'98]

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119G, 3160/51-7985 (c/n 10724) - [Benjamin Yu, Jan.'98]


Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
F-BPPA, Aeromaritime

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N212AS

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N422AU, Erickson Air-Crane ('Central Point, OR')

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
0-30272

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N497HP

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N31390???

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N39178

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N392HP, smoky start!

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N397HP

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N31330?

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
30298, USAF Museum

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
0-30354

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
0-30283

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N117GA

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N972HP (ex/ 0-30350)

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
'The Spirit of Corpus Christi' (N117GA?)

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Vintage scene at Miami International Airport (KMIA)


 

text incl Kaiser-Frazer (link)
www.airhistory.net for C-119s of all operators and locations, past & present

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119, 46-89 (mm ??????) of the Italian Air Force
www.planelogger.com/Airline/FleetList/Italian_Air_Force-Aeronautica_Militare

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119, 18038 /8038??? Note different taildoors

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119C, N13744 (c/n 10436, ex/ 49-0199 USAF; 'Tanker 86') of Hemet Valley Flying Service

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119, N13743 (c/n 10396, ex/ 49-0132 USAF; 'Tanker 81') of Hemet Valley Flying Service (preserved)

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
???

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119s, presumably ex/ Belgian AF, stored next to F-104 Starfighter FX93 (BAF)

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
C-119L , USAF 0-38154 (c/n 257)

Flying Boxcar USAF 53-8154 (c/n 257) was converted to C-119L in 1973. To civil register as N4999P, next as N90267 for Stebbins Air Transport; derelict at ANC 1994; broken up at Anchorage,AK.
Cockpit section @Greybull,WY in May 2003, on 29Jul06 at KGEY storage area north.
In May 2010 in Henderson,NV, restored by Ed Rachanski of 'Henderson Nevada Vintage Racing Car and Aviation Museum'. But due Ed's age for sale, see C-119 Info Dossier #p2.
Moved in May 2013 to Palm Springs Air Museum,CA.

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
30157? USAF

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Fairchild C-119F Flying Boxcar, 22134 (c/n 10993, CC-119) in USAF c/s but with a RCAF serial.
See also www.airhistory.net/photo/

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
ex/ RCAF C-119, a 2nd ex/RCAF marked '06'. Its c/n (msn) remains a mystery to me..? EMAIL ME!

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Flying Boxcar C-119L, N8504Z (c/n 11253; 'Know Fear'-titles) of Everts Air Fuel..
Reportedly in flyable condition in '94, but stored @Fairbanks Sep.'97.

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Flying Boxcar C-119F, N175ML (c/n 10844; 'Marine Lumber Corp.' -titles)
From my (RL) files: 'N175ML. Reg'd in 3/95, to Mid Atlantic Air Museum, Reading,PA. Ex/BuNo. 131677 and
later rereg'd N43944(?). In Dec.'95 flown from AvraValley after 4 yrs storage.


Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Martin 4040, N969M (c/n 14231)
Martin 404, N969M (c/n 14231)
These screendumps are of ATDB aero, and info, were added in April 2026

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Martin 404, N40424 (c/n 14130)
Martin 404, N40424
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+Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Martin 404, N40424 (c/n 14130)

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
N40415
Martin 404, N40415

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Martin 404, N40432 (c/n 14167) of Air Travellers Club
Martin 404 N40432

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Martin 404, N40427 (c/n 14133) of Air Travellers Club.
Martin 404 N40427 history
ORF is Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Williamsburg - Norfolk International

The Doobie Brothers were given their own private plane known as the DoobieLiner. While it wasn't as luxurious as most rock stars' planes, it was a perfect fit for a band who partied as hard as they did in between shows.
The Martin 404, once used by Eastern Airlines, was pushed to the limit just as much as its passengers.
"You could smoke weed on the plane," said Patrick Simmons. "Nobody cared. We had a full bar and drinks and chicks. It was a party in the air, pretty much continuously."

Read More: www.grunge.com/287261/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-the-doobie-brothers/

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Martin 404, N636X of Pacific Air Lines. Éx/ TWA N40429 July'52-Mar.'59 named 'Peoria'.

From my (RL) files: N636X (c/n 13145)N636X. Sold (1990s?) to J.H. Whitesell/Airlines of America, prev'ly
owning this M.404 1973-1976; seen all silver Renton 07jul94. For show circuit (1995). Pic'd (above) Camarillo 5/97,
in Confederate AF park, Camarillo, with Pacific Air Lines c/s. Story on Airliners of America in Propliner Magazine 76/98. Ln Santa Barbara 07jul99. History of the family Whitesell in Propliner magazine 78.
Reg'd on 31Aug94 to Skylease Inc., reported 01Apr03 @Camarillo,CA.
Stored after '9/11' due insurance premiums but at the time Jeff Whitesell was "..struggling to get inspections
finished on N636X." Dlvd 29Feb08 to Planes of Fame Museum, @Valle,AZ after 11 yrs of storage at Camarillo.
Pic'd 22may08 at Valle,AZ. R25Sep08 Planes of Fame Museum.
See Photos by Friends & Guests #12 for "..Camarillo residents Doug Whitesell (21), and his father Jeff (53)
in front of Jeff's Martin 404 N636X."

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Martin 404, N67097 (c/n 14145) 'SNECRM'?
N454A Eastern AL, Air Americana, to East Coast FS a.k.a. East Coast Flying Svcs (still N454A), but unused.
To XB-RUK Mario Moreno; Industrias Unidas SA (28Jan 64). As N67097 to Westernair but again unused.
Scrapped at MIA, no date.

Propliners, scanned from Ruud Leeuw's archive
Martin 404 N40419 (c/n 14125). After service with TWA and Piedmont AL, went thru a series of owners/operators:
Mike McLeany; Caribbean Int'l Hotel Corp; Royal Haitian Hotel/Transport Facilities Inc (21Jun72); Int'l
Transport Leasing (24Mar77); Royal Haitian Hotel (15Jul77); Mid South AW (21Jan87).
Parted out at Port-au-Prince (PAP; HH-RHH); maybe still present in derelict state. (Source: ATDB Aero, 4-2026)


 

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Created: 30-Jan-2026 | Updated 11-Mei-2026