Douglas DC-4

N83267, DC-4

N30068, DC-4

N86557 seen in SAN, boarding passengers. (Jon Proctor)

N93267, as seen in 1959. (Jon Proctor)

N30068, as seen in SFO. (Jon Proctor)

The full side view of N86557, as seen in SFO. (Robert D. Archer, via Jon Proctor)

A closeup of the nose of N86557, as seen in SFO. (Robert D. Archer, via Jon Proctor)

N88747 on the ramp. (Lawrence Smalley)

N86557 deplaning passengers in San Diego. (Thomson Productions)

N30068 spotted in 1957, boarding passengers in SFO. (Harry Sievers via Jon Proctor).

PSA bought two ex-Capital DC-4's in 1954, as the airline grew in popularity. The DC-4 offered more comfort than the DC-3, and held twice as many passengers. All four were retired from scheduled service in 1959, but some held on to perform charters until 1961. Jim Patterson recalls his first flight being in one of these airplanes, chartering a plane full of Native Americans in Winslow, Arizona.

The fleet statistics listed below are from PSA archives. They do not correspond with what I have seen in production list books. In this case, I have elected to use PSA data over the production list data.