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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6B
    Construction Number:45329
    Last Civil Registration:ZS-XXX
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6B cn 45329 cr ZS-XXX
    Latest Owner or Location:Drakensberg Truck Manufacturers, Wallmansthal, Pyramid, Gauteng

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    Dates

    Event

    August 1957

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    15 August 1957

    To Canadian Pacific Airlines with new c/r CF-CZV.
    Operated with markings: Empress of Suva

    10 November 1961

    To Transair Sweden AB with new c/r SE-BDG {3}.

    25 June 1965

    To Braathens SAFE with new c/r LN-SUT.

    February 1971

    To Greenland Air with new c/r OY-DRC.
    Operated with markings: Amalik

    Circa 1973


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection

    March 1979

    To Air Atlantique with new c/r G-SIXB.

    May 1979


    Photographer: Richard Vandervord
    Notes: At Manston. With DC-3 5N-ARA and DC-4 5N-ARC (ex 5T-RIF Air Mauritanie) behind, both for Arax Airlines

    December 1979

    To Air Swaziland with new c/r 3D-ASA.

    1980


    Photographer: Red Ripper24

    To Air Swaziland with new c/r 3D-ASB.

    February 1987

    To Flying Enterprise Inc with new c/r N90300 (DC-6B, 45329).

    13 April 1989

    Civil registration, N90300, cancelled.

    To Interocean Airways with new c/r C9-ASR.

    June 1990

    To Avia Air (Pty) Ltd with new c/r ZS-MUL.

    1992

    To Trans Air Cargo, Kinshasha, Zaire with new c/r 9Q-CJE.

    8 November 1998

    To SAA Museum Society with new c/r ZS-XXX.

    To Swartkops AB, Pretoria, Gauteng.
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    Placed on display.

    18 September 2008


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: At Swarktop AB, Centurion South Africa

    29 October 2010

    To Witold Walus and Willie Muntingh of Drakensberg Truck Manufacturers, Plot 145 Waterval, Wallmansthal, Pretoria.

    4 December 2010

    Ferry to final destination.

    To Drakensberg Truck Manufacturers, Wallmansthal, Pyramid, Gauteng.
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    Photographer: Modestos Meletiou
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