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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6B
    Construction Number:43274
    Last Civil Registration:N999SQ
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6B cn 43274 cr N999SQ
    Latest Owner or Location:Pikes Aviator Greenhouse and Sweets, Fairbanks, Alaska

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    Dates

    Event

    1951

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    24 June 1951

    To Swissair with new c/r HB-IBA.

    June 1968

    To Sterling Airways, Copenhagen, Denmark with new c/r OY-AEO.

    April 1973

    To Concare Aircraft Leasing with new c/r N515AO.

    April 1973

    To Concare Aircraft Leasing with new c/r N515EA.

    January 1976

    To Sis-Q Flying Service with new c/r N999SQ.

    Operated as fire service #51.

    17 February 1976

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL999SQ (DC-6B, 43274) issued.

    November 1977


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: N999SQ - DC-6 - Sis-Q at Goodyear, AZ

    Circa 1979


    Photographer: Brent Glasgow

    February 1985

    To Macavia International Corporation keeping c/r N999SQ.

    7 May 1987


    Photographer: Charlene Aro
    Notes: Photographed at the Hamilton Air Races at Hamilton AFB near Novato, CA.

    7 February 1991

    To T and G Aviation Inc, Chandler, AR keeping c/r N999SQ.

    August 1991


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Chandler Memorial, AZ

    By August 1992


    Photographer: Steven Tornblom Collection

    1993


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: N999SQ - DC-6 - Macavia at Chandler,AZ

    24 February 1994

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N999SQ.

    5 May 2000


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: At Fairbanks, Alaska

    Scrapped.

    29 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher

    Based at Everts, Fairbanks, AK.
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    To Pikes Aviator Greenhouse and Sweets, Fairbanks, AK.
    Only the forward fuselage is displayed here.
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    7 October 2010

    Civil registration, N999SQ, cancelled.
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    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Kaj Waldorff
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