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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6B
    Last Military Serial:13+04 WGAF
    Construction Number:45066
    Last Civil Registration:N4390X
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6B sn 13+04 WGAF cn 4506...
    Latest Owner or Location:Everts, Fairbanks, Alaska

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    26 June 1956

    To Western Air Lines with new c/r N93115.

    January 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the West German Air Force with s/n CA+035.

    May 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the West German Air Force with s/n CA+022.

    1965


    Photographer: robert roggeman
    Notes: EBBR.CA+022.WGAF.

    1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the West German Air Force with s/n 13+04.

    May 1969

    To Air Niger with new c/r 5U-AAF.

    June 1980

    To Securite Civile with new c/r F-ZBAD.

    Operated as fire service #62.

    26 July 1982


    Photographer: Unknown

    1 June 1983


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1983 photo at Paris Air Show at Le Bourget

    April 1986


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: Securite Civile - DC-6B - 45066_F-ZBAD at Marseille, France in April 1986

    29 December 1992

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK with new c/r N4390X.

    Based at Everts, Fairbanks, AK.
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    10 December 2008

    Civil registration, N4390X, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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