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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A/C
    Construction Number:45529
    Last Civil Registration:N779TA
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6A/C cn 45529 cr N779TA
    Latest Owner or Location:Everts Air Cargo, Fairbanks, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1959

    Constructed as a DC-6A/C.

    10 February 1959

    To Loide Aereo Nacional with new c/r PP-LFC.

    By 1960

    Leased to Panair de Brasil.
    Markings changed to: Garcia de Avila

    January 1962

    To VASP keeping c/r PP-LFC.

    28 March 1978

    To Atlas Aircraft Corporation with new c/r N779TA.

    6 November 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: DC-6 reportedly of Atlas Aircraft Corporation as seen at Miami in November 1979.

    6 January 1981

    Certificate of airworthiness for N779TA (DC-6, 45529) issued.

    6 January 1981

    To Trans Air Link Corporation keeping c/r N779TA.

    August 1989


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: 1989 photo at Anchorage

    31 August 1989

    To Northern Air Cargo Inc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N779TA.

    16 September 1998

    To Northern Air Cargo Inc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N779TA.

    Withdrawn from use.

    31 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Stored at Fairbanks, Alaska

    31 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Flight deck of stored DC-6 at Fairbanks

    Based at Everts, Fairbanks, AK.
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    27 August 2009

    To unknown owner with c/r N779TA.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Fairbanks, AK.

    2 November 2009

    To Everts Air Cargo, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N779TA.

    24 January 2018

    Civil registration, N779TA, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    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
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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