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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6BF
    Construction Number:45218
    Last Civil Registration:N111AP
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6BF cn 45218 cr N111AP
    Latest Owner or Location:Zuehl Airport, San Antonio, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    17 March 1957

    To Northeast Airlines with new c/r N6582C.

    18 March 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N111AP (DC-6B, 45218) issued.

    16 September 1966

    To Fairchild-Hillier Corporation keeping c/r N6582C.

    1967

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

    August 1972

    To Concare Aircraft Corporation with new c/r N111AP.

    April 1973

    Converted to a DC-6BF.

    August 1973

    To Zantop International Airlines keeping c/r N111AP.

    24 October 1979


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Detroit Willow Run

    1989

    To International Airlines Leasing keeping c/r N111AP.

    16 April 1991

    To Technical Aviation Consultants Inc, Pinckney, MI keeping c/r N111AP.

    By May 1998


    Photographer: Unknown

    4 April 2000

    To Nighthawk Air Systems Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N111AP.

    To Detroit Willow Run Airport (YIP), Ypsilanti, MI.
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    31 August 2016

    Civil registration, N111AP, cancelled.

    Scrapped.

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Zuehl Airport, San Antonio, TX.
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    1 January 2023


    Photographer: Javier Vera
    Notes: At Zuehl Airpark, Texas
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