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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A
    Last Military Serial:51-17668 USAF
    Construction Number:43716
    Last Civil Registration:HK-1703
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6A sn 51-17668 USAF cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:ASUR Colombia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R6D-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131613.

    Redesignated as C-118A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-17668.

    Markings Applied: 0-17668
    Placed on display.

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.

    Converted to a DC-6A.

    2 November 1976

    To Desert Air Parts Inc, Tucson, AZ with new c/r N96258 (R6D-1, 51-17668).

    6 July 1977

    Civil registration, N96258, cancelled.

    From August 1977 to 1986

    To LAC-Lineas Aereas del Caribe with new c/r HK-1703.

    24 August 1984


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: HK-1703 working for LAC - Lineas Aereas del Caribe Colombia, at Bogota, Colombia. Sorry for the scratches in the original slide!

    December 1991

    To Aerosucre SA keeping c/r HK-1703.

    December 1993

    To ASUR Colombia keeping c/r HK-1703.

    10 September 1994


    Photographer: Peter Garwood
    Notes: Asur DC-6 HK-1703 departing Villavicencio on 10th September 1994.
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