the combined age of the two cargo sisters below don't even reach a third of the lady above.. VTS650 to McGrath is leaving ANC with a typical low climb rate

Photographer Peter R. Foster

President Truman flying over flooded area. Note improper serial presentation on the presidential aircraft - the tail number should read 6505 according to the rules. Photo from: George Skadding / Life

The final arrival at Sola for the Musum. 01-06-2020 N151 took off from Faribanks, and after ca 30 minutes had to return and go back due to a problem with engine no 3. After approx two hours it took off again and flew to Yellowknife in Canada, which was the final stop before an alomst 15 hours flight across the Atlantic and after a lowpass at Bergen, it came for a lowpass along rwy 18 at Sola, before tunring and arriving rwy 36, shown by these photos. The "QRILL PET ARCTIC WORLD SERIES" is an important sign of how this ferry flight was made possible.

N151 seen at the lowpass it made along rwy 18 before its final lading at rwy 36.. To me personally, it was a tremendous joy to be there and watch it come and arrive after its final flight, led by Robert Everts, the chief of Everts Air Cargo who said "I could gladly have flown this aircaft to Las Palmas" after he had arrived with this beautufil DC-6B repanited as it was when it left BU in 1971 as LN-SUB. Now it has been beautiful restored even inside and will soon be under roof at Sola Air Museum, led by real Aviation enthusiasts. In the pandemic: "The Old one flies, while new ones are grounded

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Photo by Jim Tunney.

ex American N90732 - already stored at the time, later broken up (photographer not known)

Active as OE-LDM with The Flying Bulls

Delivered to United in July 1953 as N37568 "Mainliner Des Moines", it served until October 1968 when it had flown 32,296 hours. In December 1971 it was acquired by the Fairbanks-based Aero Retardant Inc. who converted it as a fire bomber, becoming Tanker 52 / D2. The following year it was transferred to the sister company Pacific Alaska Airlines, and operated until 1980 when it was sold to B&D Aircraft Inc. for parting out. After lingering at on at Chino for many years it was finally broken up c.1990, the nose section being noted at The Aviation Warehouse at El Mirage, CA. in October 1992.

ex HB-IBO, OH-DCB, HB-IBO, SX-DAM, N111AN, CF-QAN. Wearing fake "Pacific Air" above the door.

Built in 1946 as N37501 for United Airlines. Withdrawn in 1968 and re-registered as N375ED in 1973. Converted to a freighter in 1975 and subsequently operated by various freight companies. Re-registered as N19544 in 1981, N117PM in 1984, CP-2110 by 1991 and CP-2250 in 1993. Seized by the Peruvian Government at Lima in 1995 and with the Peruvian National Police as PNP-236 by 1997. Transferred to the Peruvian Air Force as 381 in 1997 and withdrawn at Lima by 2001. Preserved and displayed at its current location since 2005.

The DC-6 still carried United Air Lines passengers in the late 1960s. N37528 served with them from 1947 until 1968. This is a small fragment of an overview photo, still of decent quality thanks to a large scan of a good 4×5 in negative. Photo by: Marshall Moxom / SFO Museum

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.

Built 1958, ex CF-MCL and N400US. February 27th 1964 LN-SUK Braathens SAFE. September 20 1973 OO-VGK DAT- Delta Air Transport. October 1976 C-GIOY Conair Aviation, converted to Firebomber. 2001 wfu and broken up by 2003, after 45 years in the air :) Shot by my friend Jan Olav Martinsen at Fornebu in 1972

Built 1953, delivered new to Sabena as OO-CTI July 4th 1953. 1961 Leased Aviaco i basic SN colours. April 1963 SE-CCZ Transair Sweden , named "Uppsala". December 1965 N998BC Boreas. January 27th 1966 LN-SUI Braathens SAFE. May 13th 1971 LN-MTU SAGA Norsk Flytjeneste. December 1972 OO-BVG Delta Air Transport. June 976 OO-VGB Delta Air Transport. April 10th 1974 damaged beyond repair, and broken up 1975. Seen at LGW in June 1970, photograper unknown.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1958 as CF-CZY for Canadian Pacific. Trans Caribbean N4553C 1960, Faucett OB-R750 1964, converted to freighter. Fri Reyes CP-1650 1981. Undercarriage collapsed on landing La Paz 8 May 1987 and destroyed by fire. Note old fashioned "Equipado con Radar titles"

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1953 as R6D-1 131580 for USN, transferred to USAF 1958 as C-118A 51-17636, returned to USN after Korean war. Retired to MASDC 1976 and auctioned to Bellomy Lawson. Civilianized and leased to Guyana Airways 1978, crashed Saint Lucia-Vigie 30 November 1981 while trying to return after engine failure on take off.