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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:C-118B Liftmaster
    Last Military Serial:131608 USN
    Construction Number:43711
    Last Civil Registration:N830CS
    Compressed ID:Douglas C-118B sn 131608 USN cn 437...
    Latest Owner or Location:Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R6D-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131608.

    Redesignated as C-118A.

    Circa 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-17654 as a C-118A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131608.

    1962

    Redesignated as C-118B.

    Markings Applied: RV

    24 June 1979


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: On display at the 1979 Selfridge AFB Open House. For a time, this aircraft was loaned to USAF as C-118A 51-17654.

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CG0107.

    15 January 1991

    To Clifford R. Everts, Fairbanks, AL with new c/r N830CS (C-118B, 131608).

    By 2001

    To Western International, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    Only the fuselage and wings survive here.
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    20 April 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: C/n 131608 derelict at Western International, Tucson, AZ

    30 December 2008

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N830CS.

    24 July 2010


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: Douglas C-118B Liftmaster Bu.Aer 131608 started life as a US Navy R6D-1. It can still be found here in the yard of Western International, Tucson, regd N830CS.

    26 January 2018

    Civil registration, N830CS, cancelled.

    15 October 2020

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK with new c/r N830CS.
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