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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6
    Last Military Serial:NZ3632 RNZAF
    Construction Number:43127
    Last Civil Registration:EL-WNH
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6 sn NZ3632 RNZAF cn 431...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lanseria International Airport, Johannesburg, Gauteng

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    Dates

    Event

    1948

    Constructed as a DC-6.

    1948

    To Scandanavian Airline System with new c/r SE-BDI {1}.
    Not taken up.

    17 December 1948

    To British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines with new c/r VH-BPG.
    Operated with markings: named - Adventure

    2 June 1952


    Photographer: William T Larkins
    Notes: British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines DC-6 (VH-BPG) taxies into the Pan Am Terminal area at San Francisco on June 2, 1952.

    May 1954

    To Tasman Empire Airways Ltd with new c/r ZK-BFB.
    Operated with markings: named - Arawhata

    1956

    To Tasman Empire Airways Ltd with new c/r ZK-BGB.
    Operated with markings: named - Arawhata

    1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal New Zealand Air Force with s/n NZ3632.

    1964

    To Lamb Associates with new c/r N254N.

    June 1964

    To National Interests Inc keeping c/r N254N.

    13 March 1965

    To Pacific Western Airlines with new c/r CF-PWP.

    17 February 1971

    To Lamb Associates Inc with new c/r N80MA.

    1 March 1971

    To Mercer Airlines keeping c/r N80MA.

    May 1972

    To Aerial Applicators keeping c/r N80MA.
    Markings added: 20

    August 1976


    Photographer: Gordon Reid
    Notes: Aerial Applicators Inc DC-6 N80MA tanker #20 at Stockton CA in August 1976.

    13 May 1981

    To Sis-Q Flying Services keeping c/r N80MA.

    May 1985

    To MacAvia International Corporation keeping c/r N80MA.

    May 1988


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: N80MA - DC-6 - MacAvia at Santa Rosa

    7 February 1991

    To T and G Aviation Inc, Chandler, AR keeping c/r N80MA.

    August 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Chandler-Memorial, AZ

    26 December 1991


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    25 January 1994

    To Barron Thomas Aviation Inc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N80MA.

    6 July 1994

    Civil registration, N80MA, cancelled.
    Exported to Zaire.

    July 1994

    To Air Transport Office with new c/r 9Q-CPL.

    1997

    To unknown owner with c/r EL-WNH.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Lanseria International Airport, Johannesburg, Gauteng.
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    25 September 2008


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2008 photo at the Fire Dump at Lanseria Airport, South Africa

    25 April 2014


    Photographer: Mike Ward
    Notes: 2014 photo taken on the Fire Dump at Lanseria International Airport, South Africa

    15 March 2020


    Photographer: Prestwick Pioneer
    Notes: Now well derelict after years of fire training

    15 March 2020


    Photographer: Prestwick Pioneer
    Notes: IPhone shot of the port side from March this year.


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    Print Sources
    Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood

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    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America

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    Terry Fletcher

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