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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A
    Construction Number:44260
    Last Civil Registration:N8057X
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6A cn 44260 cr N8057X
    Latest Owner or Location:Aloft Inc, North Miami Beach, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

    Constructed as a DC-6A.

    21 June 1954

    To Pan American World Airways with new c/r N6260C.
    Operated with markings: Clipper Westwind

    15 September 1958

    To Los Angeles Air Service keeping c/r N6260C.

    25 September 1958

    To Slick Airways keeping c/r N6260C.

    6 April 1959

    To Aaxico Airlines keeping c/r N6260C.

    20 September 1963

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8057X (DC-6A, 44260) issued.

    1963

    To Ariana Afghan Airlines, Kabul, Afghanistan with new c/r YA-DAO.

    9 September 1967


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: Originally built in 1954 as a freighter DC-6A, it is here in pax service for Afganistan back when the country was only famous for lending its name to a breed of skinny hounds. It later moved to Latin America and was last heard of in the Miami graveyard

    17 February 1972

    To Bellomy-Lawson Aviation with new c/r N6260C.

    3 March 1972

    To TACA International Airlines with new c/r YS-38C.

    19 March 1973

    To TAN Airlines with new c/r HR-TNQ.

    14 September 1979

    To Aloft Inc, North Miami Beach, FL with new c/r N8057X.

    4 November 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: DC-6A of Aloft Inc of North Miami Beach seen at Clearwater, Florida in November 1979

    1983

    Withdrawn from use.
    Impounded at Great Inagua, Bahamas.

    13 May 2013

    Civil registration, N8057X, cancelled.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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