Aircraft Photo of 9J-AEP | Douglas DC-6B | Interocean Airways | AirHistory.net #381136
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:9J-AEP
Aircraft Original Type:Douglas DC-6
Aircraft Generic Type:Douglas DC-6 (C-118/R6D/Liftmaster)
Aircraft Version:Douglas DC-6B
C/n (msn):43740 / 289
Operator Titles:(Interocean Airways)
Location
City / Airport:LanseriaMap
Country:South Africa
Airport Codes:ICAO: FALA   IATA: HLA   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:June 1979
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 381136
Photo Comment

Originally delivered to National Airlines in 1952 as N8223H, this DC-6 also served with Pan Am, FB Ayer, Northeast, and Gary Aircraft before joining Air Djibouti as F-OCYJ in 1974. In 1976 she went to International Freight Airways as OO-IFA. Two years later, she became N799TA with Atlas. The she went to Interocean as 9J-AEP before sold to Urban Drew as N84AU in 1979 and joining Air Swaziland in 1982. In 1986 she was sold to Flying Enterprises and leased to Interocean again. Wfu at Lanseria in 1989 and scrapped the following year. The nose section is preserved with the SAA Museum at Rand.

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