PPG Donates Sealants and Coatings to Help Restore Douglas C-54 Skymaster Aircraft
PPG provided various coatings and sealants products to restore the C-54 Skymaster's integral fuel tanks, as well as other products for interior and exterior aircraft structures.
PPG recently announced that it has supplied coatings and sealants to help restore a 74-year-old, four-engine transport aircraft, the Douglas C-54 Skymaster (serial number 56498). Manufactured in 1945, the aircraft was used by the U.S. Army Air Force to transport medical supplies, troops, and military equipment during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. It left military service in 1973 and was flown as a sprayer from 1975 to 1985.
After its first restoration was completed in 2002, the aircraft was flown to England to be featured in a film about the Berlin Airlift. The film was cancelled, and the C-54 Skymaster sat exposed at the North Weald Airfield in Essex. In 2017, Allan Vogel, Save the Skymaster chairman and aircraft broker, made it his mission to save the aircraft frame from being turned into scrap.