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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:C-118B Liftmaster
    Last Military Serial:128423 USN
    Construction Number:43206
    Last Civil Registration:N9620A {1}
    Latest Owner or Location:Potaris George, New York, NY

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a R6D-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 128423.

    Transferred to Air Transron 3 (VR3), MATS (Military Air Transport Service), Moffett Field, CA.
    John Spanbauer comments (10 April 2016). It was one of 6 new R6Ds we received from Douglas at Ontario, CA. Others were 128425, 128427, 128429, 128431, and 128433.

    Redesignated as C-118B.

    Transferred to NAF Washington, DC.

    Circa October 1973


    Photographer: Ron Picciani

    17 July 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9620A {1} (C-118, 128423) issued.

    10 June 1980

    To Potaris George, New York, NY with new c/r N9620A {1}.

    1 July 2013

    Civil registration, N9620A {1}, cancelled.

    1 January 2017

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9620A {1} (C-118, 128423) issued.
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