The main cabin of G-SIXC during loading of freight containers through cargo door (left). Rollers in floor assist movement. Small space at left allows crew access to cockpit. Taken during CVT-MAN-DUB-CVT cargo charter flight for Aer Lingus.

Air Atlantique acquired this DC-6 in 1987 and it served them well until 2005, when it was stored at Coventry. In 2011 it was converted into a restaurant at Air Atlantique's Airbase Museum, which formally opened as the "DC-6 Diner" on 22 April 2011. The diner closed on 23 Dec 2015, following Air Atlantique's owner Mike Collett's retirement. On 1 March 2016 the diner re-opened as the "DC-6 Diner & Cafe", now owned by the Eden Hotel Collection Group. It closed down again on 28 Sep 2017, this time probably for good. However, G-SIXC still remained at Coventry by Apr 2018.

A look at the port side of this Air Atlantique DC-6 still painted up in basic Air France c/s after featuring in a French movie.

It had been painted up and used in a French film (Une Femme Francaise) with full Air France livery including titles and reg (F-BBDG) to represent a former Air France DC-4. When this photograph was taken it was back in service with owner Air Atlantique.

Note the feathered propellers

Former Conair tanker C-GJKT is now stored in the Everts yard with a new hand-taped registration and still showing Conair's tanker number 49 on the fin.

Ex Conair Tanker 49 (C-GJKT) and still in their colours. Acquired by Everts in 2000 and noted being stripped for spares in the Everts hangar in Jun 2011. Originally delivered to Western Air Lines in 1957 as a DC-6B, this aircraft was converted to a quick-change pax/cargo version with forward and aft cargo doors (DC-6C standard) by Pacific Airmotive, under subcontract from Douglas, and then transferred to the FMS as a C-118A for onward delivery to the Chile Air Force. It served with them until 1982.

A freight "Igloo" is pushed off the scissor-lift truck before being propelled forward along G-SIXC's roller-fitted cargo floor to make space for further containers. 13 Tons of cargo was loaded at Manchester before our departure for Dublin on an Air Atlantique charter on behalf of Aer Lingus. I flew in the cockpit as supernumerary crew.

Captain Whiteman prepares to open the throttles to accelerate Air Atlantique's heavily loaded DC-6B up Manchester's Runway 06 "hill" bound for Dublin with Ireland's Sunday newspapers which had been printed in the city. We also had other Aer Lingus cargo aboard. On our positioning flight back to Coventry, we had to shut down a rough-running engine during our initial approach in a snowstorm - real flying!

Seen in ex-Saturn livery 19C was delivered new to Pan Am in February 1952, and leased out as LV-PFD and LV-HHR. Cvtd to DC-6A/B in 1963, and as a freighter was HC-ATH, N6385 and HK-1389. Crashed after departing Santa Maria February 4, 1976.

Seen at Airbase at Coventry, this is a classic way to deal with a redundant classic aircraft. It has been turned into a stylish and popular restaurant whilst retaining a good deal of its original interior.

Whilst it is unfortunate that this aircraft will never fly again, it has been preserved as the restaurant at Airbase, a working museum at Coventry. The conversion is stylish and superbly executed and the whole Airbase experience is worth a visit.