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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6BF
    Construction Number:44891
    Last Civil Registration:N841TA
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6BF cn 44891 cr N841TA
    Latest Owner or Location:Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society Inc, The Woodlands, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    To CP Air with new c/r CF-CZE.

    Converted to a DC-6BF.

    To CP Air keeping c/r CF-CZE.

    To unknown owner with c/r N45502.

    To unknown owner with c/r CC-CEV.

    To unknown owner with c/r CC-PJG.

    17 November 1979


    Photographer: Paul Hooper
    Notes: Photo taken at Miami/Opa Locka, FL

    16 August 1982

    To Trans Air Link with new c/r N841TA.

    29 May 1992


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N841TA flying cargo for Trans-Air-Link at Miami International, FL

    10 March 1999

    To Trans Air Supply Corp, Hialeah, FL keeping c/r N841TA.

    18 February 2004

    To Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society Inc, The Woodlands, TX keeping c/r N841TA.

    To 1940 Air Terminal Museum, William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, TX.
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    Withdrawn from use.

    21 November 2014

    Civil registration, N841TA, cancelled.

    21 November 2014

    To Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society Inc, The Woodlands, TX keeping c/r N841TA.
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