Tony Lloyd photo

Tony Lloyd photo

Tony Lloyd photo

Tony Lloyd photo

First CAP21, first flown 23Jun80, pictured on first visit to UK,flown by Eric Muller (Tony Lloyd photo).

Delivered to Air Transit as CF-CSX November 1973. Department of Transport/Transport Canada April 1976 as C-FCSX. To BBS Aircraft June 2011 and leased to PT Aviastar March2012 as PK-BRZ, returned 2015 and leased to Spirit Avia Sentosa as PK-FSA the same year. Leased to Helifix PNG from December 2018. Current in 2025, re-registered P2-HFF May 2019. Current in 2025. Photographer unknown

Last reported at Chandler- Gila River Memorial, AZ., in March 1982, its subsequent fate is unknown.

Originally 45-502 with the USAAF/USAF it served until retired to the Davis-Monthan AFB "boneyard" in March 1973. Civilianised as N1022A in November 1978 it was reregistered HH-JMA for Haiti Air Freight in July 1988, but withdrawn from use c.1990. In 1992 it was acquired by the USAF Museum and is now is now preserved in the Hill Aerospace Museum at Ogden-Hill AFB, UT.

Built as US Navy R6D-1 BuNo 131595 but diverted to USAF as C-118A 51-17645. It was retired to MASDC at Tucson in May 1975 and civilianised as N2901F in June 1976. In April 1984 it landed after dark at the closed Johnstown Airport, PA., left the paved area and became stuck in mud. The police were alerted but when they arrived the crew had disappeared, and the aircraft was found to contain bales of marijuana. It was later re-registered N76AF and was later photographed, (qv), at McAllen Airport, TX., in 1987. Its fate is obscured but the registration was cancelled as "Destroyed" in July 1990.

Delivered to the USAF in October 1952 as serial 51-3830 it served until consigned to MASDC at Tucson in December 1974. It was sold in May 1976 and registered N44916, but appears to have never been converted for legitimate use and was impounded with a cargo of Marijuana at Valledupar, Colombia in 1990. In November 2001 it was moved to the Parque de los Helados, (Ice Cream Park), in Valledupar where it became an education centre. Remarkably it can still be seen there on Google Earth at what is now called the Parque De La Provincia. Thanks to Ruud Leeuw's excellent web site for much of the above.

Delivered to Trans-Canada Air Lines as CF-TGN in April 1955, it served until September 1962 and then served with various corporate owners until acquired by Go in October 1979. When photographed it had recently been resprayed in this new colour scheme, and, according to the Vickers Viscount Network it was fitted with a new luxury 19-seat interior with video players and telephones. Although, (again according to VVN), it changed hands a couple of more times before it was scrapped in April 1993, I have been unable to find a photograph of it away from Tucson, or indeed with a full set of engines.

The aircraft was sold to Reliant Airlines as N232RA in 1984. It was written off on 15th February 1989 when it overran and went down a steep embankment at Binghamton Airport, NY., after landing on an icy runway with braking action nil and a drag chute that did not open properly.

The aircraft was delivered to the USAF as T-29C 52-1096 in September 1953, it was converted to AC-131A in April 1959 then AT-29C in May 1960, and re-designated ET-29C in 1962. It passed to the FAA as N244 in September 1962, re-registered N247 in September 1963 and then N28 in November 1963, N254 in 1966 and lastly to N94 in 1973. Restored to the USAF as 52-1096 in April 1977 but offered for sale and acquired by Time Aviation Services as N45786 in August that year. The last confirmed sighting at Tucson was in 1986 and thought scrapped around the time the registration was cancelled in July 1988.

This aircraft was last reported stored at St. Louis Downtown Airport in 2022, and can be seen there on Google Earth imagery date 11/2022.

City name 'Duisburg' has already been removed, at the end of its career this aircraft has been used by the USAF in the KC-135 program and remains stored at Davis Monthan.

Originally built in 1958 as N6597C for Northeast Airlines it was re-possessed by Vickers in 1963 due to non-payment of lease fees, and was sold at auction to what was to be the first of a number of corporate owners, initially as N3939V and later as N8989V, until being acquired by Ron Clarke Enterprises in 1974. It served with Clarke's company, or one of its Go Group associates, until late 1989 when it was withdrawn from use at Tucson. During its time with the Go Group it was used by such musical luminaries as Bad Company, The Who, Tom Jones, Rod Stewart and David Bowie.

Slide taken by Mr. Akira Watanabe.

Early production, fuselage number 7, "straight" DC-6 photographed stored out of use wearing the partial livery of its last operator Pacific American / Mercer Airlines at Tucson International in June 1981. Originally delivered in November 1946 to American Airlines as N90704 "Flagship Oklahoma" it served until 1962 when it was sold to Nordair in Denmark as OY-AOF and visited Gatwick as such on 20-08-1963.