Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1957 for American Airlines , Southern Air Transport 1961, Intermountain 1967, Rich International 1973, leased to Cayman Airways 1979, returned 1981. Aerial Transit N89BL 1987. Withdrawn Aguadilla, PR by 2004. Had initially "Cayman Cargo" titles applied which were lengthened to "Cayman Airways Cargo" before entering service.

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.

DC-6 HH-SCA was formerly operated by Haiti Air Freight. When this picture was taken it was located inside the Chilean UN-Aviation compound at Port-au-Prince (Haiti) where it served as a club house for Chilean military personnel deployed to Haiti with the UN (MINUSTAH) called the MINUS-pub.

Delivered to Northwest Orient as N571 in Nov. 1956, their fleet number 571 can just be discerned on the nose-wheel door. It was sold to Zantop in Aug. 1961, passed on to Universal Airlines in Sept. 1966 and then to Span East Airlines as N612SE in Jan.1970. After Span East closed in 1976 it was acquired by Conner Airlines and re-registered N612CA. Florida Aircraft Leasing became owners in Nov. 1984 and North American Register and Transport, who re-registered it N29630, in Jan. 1988. It was last reported derelict at Puerto Plata Airport, Dominican Republic in April 1998 still wearing N612CA!

Photographed lining up on Runway 28R, (as it then was), at London Heathrow in August 1981. It made its last ever Heathrow visit the following month and was sold to TAL Trans Air Link as N867TA, passing in 1986 to the iconic DC-6 operator Northern Air Cargo Inc. of Anchorage, AK. Sadly it was written off in a landing accident at Deadhorse-Alpine Airstrip, AK., in September 2001.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1956 as 53-5304 for USAF. Civilanized 1976 as N888DG for Pacific Alaska Airlines. Northern Pacific Transport 1985, Universal Airlines 1989. Everts Air Fuel 1995, transferred to Everts Air Cargo 1996 , withdrawn and parted out by 2019.

NTU by Sincereways - became N600UA with Universal Airlines in 1998. Belly landing at Cold Bay (AK) in June 2011, as crew forgot to lower undercarriage

Photographer: Not known. K25 slide scan. Built 1958 as VR-HFK for Cathay Pacific. Braathens LN-SUB 1962, SAGA LN-MTV 1971 , renamed Troll Air 1972, operating for Bangladesh Biman early 1972. DAT OO-LVG October 1972, reregistered OO-VGL 1973. Conair C-GIGD 1976 as Tanker 47, Air Cargo Express N151 1997, renamed Everts Air Cargo 2002, active until around 2014. Acquired by Flyhistorisk Museum Sola and ferried as final flight to Stavanger February 2020 for static display.

This DC-6 is really not easy to photograph without a drone, especially on a very foggy day. It was originally delivered to LAI in November 1953 and the company merged in 1957 with Alitalia - Aerolinee Italiane Internazionali, to form what was the modern-day Alitalia. The plane flew from 1961 to 1970 with SAM - Societa Aerea Medierranea, after which it joined the.Aeronautica Militare Italiana as MM61965. By 1988 it had become a disco in Bachero di Cingoli and from circa 2000 it was placed on top of this now defunct restaurant in Villamarzana.

Sterling Sweden leased OY-STT from the Danish mother company and a Lockheed Electra from Falconair. Sold in 1973 to Concare Aircraft Leasing as N515TP, then became N444SQ with Sis-Q-Flying Service. Later to a string of other operators. Broken up 1997, nose preserved at the Oakland Aviation Museum (photographer not known)

ex Western and Fuerza Aerea de Chile (photographer not known)

Went to the Fuerza Aerea Mexicana as ETP-10022 (photographer not known)

One of the star exhibits of the Museo Nacional de Aviacion in Ilopango, San Salvador, El Salvador is this DC-6B, painted as 302.

Recently purchased by Iscargo at this time from Fred Olsen Air Transport where it was registered LN-FOL. Still showing signs of where the old titles and registration have been painted out. WFU in 1981 and broken up in 1983. Nose section preserved at the Icelandic Aviation Museum, Akureyri, Iceland.

Recently purchased by Iscargo at this time from Fred Olsen Air Transport where it was registered LN-FOL. Still showing signs of where the old titles and registration have been painted out. WFU in 1981 and broken up in 1983. Nose section preserved at the Icelandic Aviation Museum, Akureyri, Iceland.