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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A/B
    Construction Number:45550
    Last Civil Registration:G-SIXC
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6A/B cn 45550 cr G-SIXC
    Latest Owner or Location:GJD Engineering, Saint Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a DC-6A.

    1958


    Photographer: Douglas Aircraft Company
    Notes: B1006 CAT. From an original slide sent to me in 1988 by Douglas Aircraft Company, who told me at the time it ay be used if credited

    30 September 1958

    To Civil Air Transport with new c/r B-1006.

    1968

    To Royal Air Lao with new c/r XW-PFZ.

    1972

    To Southern Air Transport with new c/r N93459.

    Converted to a DC-6A/B.

    1978

    To Trans Continental Airlines keeping c/r N93459.

    20 March 1987

    To Air Atlantique with new c/r G-SIXC.

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Loading freight at East Midlands Airport in 1990s

    Circa 1991


    Photographer: Andrew Breeden
    Notes: In the hangar at Coventry

    20 July 1991


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Douglas DC-6B of Air Atlantique on display at the 1991 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    Placed on display with Air Atlantique Classic Flight, Coventry Baginton Airport, West Midlands, Warwickshire/Warks, England.
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    Circa September 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At a British Airways family day London Heathrow.

    13 July 2007

    To Air Atlantique Ltd, Dakota House, Coventry Airport West, Baginton, Coventry keeping c/r G-SIXC.

    Circa April 2011

    To Airbase, Coventry Baginton Airport, Baginton, Warwickshire/Warks, England.
    Opened as a restaurant.
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    2 August 2011

    Civil registration, G-SIXC, cancelled.

    Http://ukga.com/airfield/coventry/21838.

    2 November 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Former Air Atlantique DC-6 now converted to a DC-6 Diner at Airbase Museum at Coventry Airport


    Photographer: Andrew Breeden
    Notes: Painted for a movie

    5 August 2021

    To GJD Engineering, Saint Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
    Dismantled, in storage.
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    27 January 2024


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
    Notes: Seen in current condition at St Athan
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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    Terry Fletcher
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