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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:C-118B Liftmaster
    Last Military Serial:131611 USN
    Construction Number:43714
    Last Civil Registration:N680AG
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-118B sn 131611 USN cn 437...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Guaranty Title and Trust Llc Trustee, Houston, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R6D-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131611.

    Redesignated as C-118B.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131611.

    To unknown owner with c/r N821CS.

    To unknown owner with c/r HK-3644X.

    30 April 1972


    Photographer: RON PICCIANI COLLECTION
    Notes: 131611 OPERATED BY VR-1, BASED AT NAS NORFOLK, VA, PHOTOGRAPHED April 30th, 1971, via Ron Picciani Collection.

    Circa April 1974


    Photographer: RON PICCIANI COLLECTION
    Notes: C-118B Bu# 131611 on short final to NAS Willow Grove, PA in April 1974, photo by Ron Picciani

    March 2000


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: HK-3644X - Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster (DC-6A) AeroNorte Colombia at Bucaramanga/Colombia in March 2000 changed to Lineas Aereas Suramericanas in 1986 but the name was revived in 1991, when this C-118 was acquired. c/n 43.714 - originally Bu No. 131611 delivered to the USN in 1953 and to MASDC at Davis Monthan in 6.77. Stored at Bucaramanga in Colombiafrom 12.99, became N680AG in 2004 but still stored there

    1 October 2004

    To Aircraft Guaranty Title and Trust Llc Trustee, Houston, TX with new c/r N680AG.

    13 February 2007

    To unknown owner with c/r N680AG.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Panama.

    To unknown owner with c/r N680AG.

    29 August 2013

    Civil registration, N680AG, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Panama.
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