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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A
    Last Military Serial:ETP10024 FAMe
    Construction Number:44633
    Last Civil Registration:N48AW
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6A sn ETP10024 FAMe cn 4...
    Latest Owner or Location:Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd, Fairbanks, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1955

    Constructed as a C-118A.

    1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-3262.

    5 April 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-3262.

    Converted to a VC-118A.

    September 1970


    Photographer: RON PICCIANI COLLECTION
    Notes: 53-3262 RC118A SEPT 70 RON PICCIANI COLLECTION, POSTED WITH PERMISSION

    1976

    To Aircraft Specialities with new c/r N44917.

    To unknown owner with c/r N44917.

    Converted to a DC-6A.

    To unknown owner with c/r N44917.

    1978

    To Rhoades International with new c/r N140JR.

    1984

    To Aerial Transport with new c/r N87BL.

    To Bellomy-Lawson Aviation keeping c/r N87BL.

    1990

    To Aerosul with new c/r HK-3438X.

    1991

    To unknown owner.

    To unknown owner with c/r XA-TDR.

    To Falcon Field (KFFZ), Phoenix, AZ.
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    1998


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: At Mesa Falcon Field

    9 August 1999

    To Robert L Riemenschneider Enterprises In, Redmond, OR with new c/r N48AW.

    15 October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Mesa, AZ.

    1 May 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: XA-TDR with CAF WING titles at Mesa, AZ

    19 November 2002


    Photographer: Clive Hindmarch
    Notes: 2002 photo taken at Mesa Falcon Field AZ

    23 March 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Mesa - Falcon Field, AZ, USA

    November 2007

    Scrapped.

    7 November 2007

    To Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N48AW.

    13 December 2007

    Civil registration, N48AW, cancelled.

    Scrapped.

    13 December 2007

    Civil registration, N48AW, cancelled.

    To unknown owner with c/r ETP-10024.

    To unknown owner with c/r XA-TDR.

    To unknown owner with c/r N48AW.

    Scrapped.
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