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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A/B
    Last Military Serial:MM61900 {2} AMI
    Construction Number:44913
    Last Civil Registration:N4913R
    Latest Owner or Location:Yankee Air Museum, Detroit Willow Run Airport (YIP) (East Side), Ypsilanti, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    To unknown owner with c/r I-DIMB.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Aeronautica Militare Italiana with s/n MM61900 {2} and operated with these markings: SM-6.

    To unknown owner with c/r I-DIMB.

    Converted to a DC-6A/B.

    To unknown owner with c/r I-DIMB.

    20 July 1964


    Photographer: Bert Woerdeman
    Notes: photo taken at Amsterdam Schiphol

    9 September 1972

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4913R (DC-6B, 44913) issued.

    15 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: At Detroit Willow Run

    11 April 1989

    To unknown owner with c/r N4913R.

    8 January 1993

    To Yankee Air Force Inc, Belleville, MI keeping c/r N4913R.

    19 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Yankee Air Force Museum in Yipsilanti, Michigan.

    1 January 2009

    Certificate of airworthiness for N4913R (DC-6B, 44913) issued.

    Placed on display with Yankee Air Museum, Detroit Willow Run Airport (YIP) (East Side), Ypsilanti, MI.
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    Scrapped.

    30 April 2015

    Civil registration, N4913R, cancelled.
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