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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A
    Construction Number:44071
    Last Civil Registration:N12347
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6A cn 44071 cr N12347
    Latest Owner or Location:David Naber, Fairbanks, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a DC-6A.

    From 1 September 1953 to 31 December 1959

    To Flying Tiger Line with new c/r N34955.

    30 November 1953

    Leased to Northwest Orient Airlines.

    31 December 1959

    To Bess-Nor Inc keeping c/r N34955.

    16 September 1961

    To Zantop Air Transport keeping c/r N34955.

    November 1970

    To TAISA with new c/r TI-1079C.

    4 July 1975

    To Onyx Aviation with new c/r N48286.

    1 August 1975

    To Sis-Q Flying Services keeping c/r N48286.

    19 August 1975

    To Sis-Q Flying Services with new c/r N777SQ {2}.

    September 1977


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: On the next readiness stand at Porterville Attack Base in September 1977 was Sis- Q Flying Service DC-6A N777SQ tanker #50. It was fitted with an impressively large belly tank, with cockpit controls for eight different retardant drop sequences

    8 November 1979

    To Misty Air keeping c/r N777SQ {2}.

    7 February 1980


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: Parked at Customs at Miami International

    April 1980

    To Misty Air with new c/r N12347.

    August 1981

    To Matomco Oil Company keeping c/r N12347.

    27 June 1983

    Certificate of airworthiness for N12347 (DC-6A, 44071) issued.

    September 1986

    To Northern Pacific Transport keeping c/r N12347.

    5 October 1992

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N12347.

    Based at Everts, Fairbanks, AK.
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    In derelict condition.

    2003

    To David Naber, Fairbanks, AK.
    Purchased from Everts Air in 2003 and moved to Fox, Alaska.

    30 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Photographed at a Road Junction in North Fairbanks- purchased by private individual - believe no longer at this location (2011)

    30 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher

    4 June 2013

    Civil registration, N12347, cancelled.

    8 July 2020

    David Naber reports: 7 steel pilings driven 50-60 and airframe resting on its jack points. Wheels removed and gear retracted. Process of reattaching wings, engines and props.

    24 July 2020


    Photographer: Jacob Naber
    Notes: Beginning conversion into house. Just got put on pilings and we are about to stick a wing on.

    By November 2020


    Photographer: Jacob Naber
    Notes: Wing now attached
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    David Naber
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