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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6BF
    Construction Number:44105
    Last Civil Registration:HP-894
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6BF cn 44105 cr HP-894
    Latest Owner or Location:Inair Panama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    15 August 1953

    To Pan American World Airways with new c/r N6105C.
    Operated with markings: Clipper Sam Houston

    Markings Applied: Clipper Nuremberg

    1965


    Photographer: robert roggeman
    Notes: EBBR.PAN AMERICAN.

    1968

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Miami, Florida.

    24 February 1969

    To Westinghouse Electric keeping c/r N6105C.

    April 1970


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Westinghouse Earth Resources Douglas DC-6B N6105C at Perth in April 1970 while conducting specialised mineral survey work in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

    7 March 1974

    To Bellomy-Lawson Aviation keeping c/r N6105C.

    December 1974

    Converted to a DC-6BF.

    From February 1975 to July 1975

    Leased to Caraibische Lucht Transport.

    7 March 1977

    To Pan African Airlines with new c/r 5N-APS.

    6 November 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: DC-6B(F) of Pan African Airways as seen at Miami in November 1979.

    1 December 1979

    To Professional Aviation Corporation keeping c/r 5N-APS.

    8 February 1980

    To Professional Aviation Corp, Miami Springs, FL with new c/r N6105C.

    28 March 1981

    To Professional Aviation Corporation with new c/r N6105C.

    2 April 1981

    To Inair Panama with new c/r HP-894.

    2 April 1981

    Civil registration, N6105C, cancelled.
    Exported to Panama.

    Withdrawn from use.

    Scrapped.
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     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Terry Fletcher
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