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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A
    Construction Number:44070
    Last Civil Registration:N616SE
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6A cn 44070 cr N616SE
    Latest Owner or Location:Zuehl Airport, San Antonio, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a DC-6A.

    17 August 1953

    To Flying Tiger Line with new c/r N34954 {1}.

    By September 1953

    To Japan Air Lines with new c/r JA6203.
    Operated with markings: City of Nora

    March 1954


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: Japan Air Lines DC-6A City of Nara at the San Francisco Airport United Air Lines maintenance base in March 1954.

    10 July 1968

    To Transavia Holland with new c/r PH-TRG.

    1 September 1968

    To Sudwestflug/Germanair/Transportflug with new c/r D-ABAY.

    8 May 1969


    Photographer: Ken Fielding
    Notes: At London Gatwick

    21 September 1973

    To Jet Aviation with new c/r HB-IBV.

    September 1973

    To Span East Airlines with new c/r N616SE.

    28 September 1973

    Certificate of airworthiness for N616SE (DC-6A, 44070) issued.

    August 1975


    Photographer: Richard Vandervord
    Notes: MIA

    August 1978

    To Trans Continental Airlines keeping c/r N616SE.

    13 May 1998

    To Nighthawk Air Systems Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N616SE.

    To Detroit Willow Run Airport (YIP), Ypsilanti, MI.
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    15 August 1999


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Willow Run Airport, MI

    Scrapped.

    7 April 2017

    Civil registration, N616SE, cancelled.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Zuehl Airport, San Antonio, TX.
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    9 May 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Marion - Zuehl, TX, USA
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     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
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