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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6B
    Last Military Serial:13+02 Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:44175
    Last Civil Registration:9Q-CRH
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Transport Office

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    13 January 1954

    To Sabena with c/r OO-CTM.

    1 June 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n CA+024.

    January 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n 13+02.

    From April 1969 to 1972

    To Sterling Airways with c/r OY-STY.

    4 June 1969


    Photographer: Erik Holm

    From 12 December 1969 to December 1971

    Leased to Joint Church Aid.

    April 1973

    To Concare Aircraft Leasing with c/r N515TY.

    August 1973

    To Bellomy-Lawson Aviation.

    From November 1973 to February 1978

    Leased to Rosenbalm Aviation.

    From March 1978 to January 1993

    To Trans Continental Airlines.

    1979


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Midway

    24 October 1979


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At Detroit Willow Run

    From November 1990 to February 1991

    Leased to Trans-Air-Link.

    Circa 11 January 1993

    Certificate of airworthiness for N515TY (DC-6B, 44175) issued.

    11 January 1993

    To Airtrust Limited, Wilmington, DE.

    9 May 1995

    Civil registration, N515TY, cancelled.
    Exported to Zaire.

    15 May 1995

    To Air Transport Office with c/r 9Q-CRH.

    1998

    Withdrawn from use.

    Scrapped.
    At Kinshasa/NDjili International, Kinshasa, KN, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Terry Fletcher
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