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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:VC-118A Liftmaster
    Last Military Serial:53-3304 USAF
    Construction Number:44675/642
    Last Civil Registration:N888DG
    Latest Owner or Location:Fairbanks, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1956

    Constructed as a C-118A.

    4 January 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-3304.

    From By May 1968 to After August 1971

    Transferred to 7th Air Force Flight Operations, Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam.

    1971


    Photographer: William Chandler
    Notes: Photographed at Tan Son Nhut.

    Circa 1972

    Converted to a VC-118A.

    May 1975

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number CG062.

    12 May 1976

    To Pacific Alaska Airlines with new c/r N888DG.

    June 1976

    Converted to freighter configuration.

    July 1978

    Leased to Whitney Fidalgo Seafoods.

    May 1983

    To Yakutat Seafoods Company with new c/r N100YS.

    March 1985

    To Northern Pacific Transport, Inc, Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N100YS.

    Circa January 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for N888DG (C-118A, 44675) issued.

    January 1990

    To Universal Airlines with new c/r N888DG.

    31 March 1992

    Certificate of airworthiness for N888DG (C-118A, 44675) issued.

    August 1992

    To First National Bank of Anchorage, AK keeping c/r N888DG.
    Aircraft repossessed.

    August 1992

    To Sherman Grayson, TX keeping c/r N888DG.

    March 1995

    To Everts Air Fuel keeping c/r N888DG.

    28 June 1996

    To Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N888DG.

    Circa June 1996

    Leased to Air Cargo Express, Fairbanks, AK.

    15 June 1999

    To Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N888DG.

    By September 2004

    Leased to Everts Air Cargo (Air Cargo Express renamed), Fairbanks, AK.

    By July 2011

    Assigned to Fairbanks, AK for storage.

    5 December 2020

    Civil registration, N888DG, cancelled.
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    Terry Fletcher
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