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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6
    Construction Number:42855
    Last Civil Registration:D-ABAH
    Latest Owner or Location:Sanicare, Bad Laer, Lower Saxony

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-6.

    24 November 1946

    To American Airlines with c/r N90702.
    Operated with markings: Flagship California

    12 September 1960

    To Air Jordan with c/r JY-ACE.

    13 September 1961

    To Foreign Air Transport Development with c/r N90702.

    November 1962

    To International Airlines/Aerovias Panama with c/r HP-361.

    July 1964

    To International Airlines with c/r N90702.

    1965

    To Sudwestflug/Germanair with c/r D-ABAH.

    To Sanicare, Bad Laer, Lower Saxony.
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    After 2004


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: D-ABAH - Douglas DC-6 - SANICARE titlesat Bad Laer/Germany

    6 November 2015


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Bad Laer, Germany
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