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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A
    Construction Number:45518
    Last Civil Registration:N170UA
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6A cn 45518 cr N170UA
    Latest Owner or Location:Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd, Fairbanks, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-6A.

    Civil registration N7820C reserved but not taken up.

    To unknown owner with c/r F-BYCH.

    To unknown owner with c/r YV-293C.

    To unknown owner with c/r N870TA.

    16 May 1985

    Certificate of airworthiness for N170UA (DC-6A, 45518) issued.

    1992


    Photographer: Chris Redford
    Notes: n870TA Trans Air Link

    11 June 1992


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N870TA called Sky Truck in Trans-Air-Link-markings rolling to the apron at Miami International, FL

    25 November 1997

    To First Security Bank Na Trustee, Salt Lake City, UT with new c/r N870TA.

    16 November 2000

    To Universal Airlines Inc, Statesville, NC with new c/r N170UA.

    To Kenai Municipal Airport, Kenai, AK.
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    20 May 2010

    To Race Coast Aviation Llc, Port Orange, FL keeping c/r N170UA.

    To unknown owner with c/r N170UA.

    23 October 2015

    To Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N170UA.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N170UA (DC-6A, 45518) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2016

    To Universal Airlines Inc, Statesville, NC keeping c/r N170UA.

    18 May 2018

    To Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N170UA.

    5 February 2022

    Civil registration, N170UA, cancelled.
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