K25 slide scan. Aircraft history well documented. Both DC-6's were occasional visitors on freight charters taking advantage of the fact that a piston engined aircraft could operate under VFR rules thus avoiding slots. Ready to taxi for positioning back to Coventry while DHL hub traffic was being held and piling up on the service road to enable an uncluttered shot to be taken.

Note that the titles here are Atlantic Cargo.

2008 should have brought a visit by Heathrow by this magnificent machine to close her British Eagle season, marking the last service into LHR by that airline exactly 40 years earlier. However, thanks to a deplorable decision at a late stage by the BAA to refuse permission, it didn't happen. Here's a tiny consolation from her working career, on a mail run from Heathrow due to a BA crew strike