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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6B
    Construction Number:44087
    Last Civil Registration:N111AN
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6B cn 44087 cr N111AN
    Latest Owner or Location:Pacific Coast Air Museum, Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    14 October 1953

    To Swissair with new c/r HB-IBO.
    Operated with markings: Canton De Vaud

    From 9 October 1962 to May 1963

    To Finlantic with new c/r OH-DCB.

    May 1963

    To Swissair with new c/r HB-IBO.

    1 May 1964

    To Olympic Airways with new c/r SX-DAM.
    Operated with markings: Isle of Crete

    June 1973

    To Rosenbalm Aviation with new c/r N111AN.

    6 July 1973

    Certificate of airworthiness for N111AN (DC-6B, 44087) issued.

    1974

    To Sis-Q Aviation Santa Rosa, CA keeping c/r N111AN.

    Operated as fire service #46.

    July 1982


    Photographer: Bob Shane / Eric Bannwarth Collection
    Notes: N111AN - DC-6 - Sis-Q at Santa Rosa

    By 1985

    To Macavia International Corporation keeping c/r N111AN.

    7 February 1991

    To T and G Aviation Inc, Chandler, AR keeping c/r N111AN.

    7 July 1997


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at Santa Rosa, CA.

    31 January 1998

    To Nighthawk Air Systems Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N111AN.

    February 1998

    Scrapped.
    Cut up for scrap in Santa Rosa, Ca.

    To Pacific Coast Air Museum, Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Santa Rosa, CA.
    View the Location Dossier

    20 July 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    28 August 2014

    Civil registration, N111AN, cancelled.
    Credits
     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
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Jon Floate
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