Not every day one gets to see a DC-6 fly! And certainly not one fitted with oil dispersant spray bars below the rear fuselage, doing a spraying demonstration.

Not every day one gets to see a DC-6 fly!

Delivered new to Slick Airways as N90811 on 27 March 1953. To F-BGTX, TU-TBM and 43819 with the Armee de l'Air. Bought by the Fuerza Aerea Mexicana in 1979. Stored then broken up in 2003.

This aircraft, seen here at the start of its takeoff run on runway 14, joined the Everts fleet in August 2000. It was originally delivered to Canadian Pacific way back in July 1958 as CF-CZZ. It later served as a sprayer with Conifair (C-GBZC) in the mid 1980s and even saw some service as an airtanker with France's Sécurité Civile from 1986 to 1988 as F-ZBAP (Tanker 65). Its last former owner was Conair (C-FCZZ, Tanker 52). By 2017 it still served faithfully with Everts.

2008 should have brought a visit by Heathrow by this magnificent machine to close her British Eagle season, marking the last service into LHR by that airline exactly 40 years earlier. However, thanks to a deplorable decision at a late stage by the BAA to refuse permission, it didn't happen. Here's a tiny consolation from her working career, on a mail run from Heathrow due to a BA crew strike