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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6F
    Construction Number:45372
    Last Civil Registration:N7780B
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6F cn 45372 cr N7780B
    Latest Owner or Location:Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a DC-6A.

    12 November 1957

    To Riddle Airlines with new c/r N7780B.

    13 November 1957

    To Hughes Tool Company keeping c/r N7780B.
    WFU and stored at Santa Monica, California.

    1 March 1974

    To Northern Air Cargo Inc, Panama City, FL keeping c/r N7780B.

    July 1990


    Photographer: David A. Montgomery
    Notes: N7780B Douglas DC-6A of Northern Air Cargo sits on its ramp at Fairbanks, Alaska

    1998

    Converted to a DC-6F.
    Converted to tanker.

    19 March 1998

    To Northern Air Cargo Inc, Panama City, FL keeping c/r N7780B.

    14 June 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7780B (DC-6A, 45372) issued.

    6 June 2005

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N7780B.
    Markings added: The Aviator

    Based at Everts, Fairbanks, AK.
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    December 2013

    Landing at Nixon Fork Mine near McGrath, Alaska.

    2019


    Photographer: Mark Charlie

    10 March 2023

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N7780B.
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