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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A/B
    Construction Number:44428
    Last Civil Registration:N54CA
    Latest Owner or Location:Bird and Sons Inc, Oakland, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    From 15 June 1954 to 1964

    To Pan American World Airways with c/r N5028K.

    From November 1958 to April 1959

    Leased to National Airlines.

    Converted to a DC-6A/B.

    From 2 April 1964 to 9 June 1964

    To Austral with c/r LV-PAY.

    9 June 1964

    To Austral with c/r N5028K.

    24 December 1964

    To Pan AM World Airways.

    15 January 1965

    To Iran Air with c/r EP-AEV.

    November 1974

    To Bird Air with c/r N54CA.

    12 December 1974

    To Bird and Sons Inc, Oakland, CA.

    July 1979

    Withdrawn from use.
    And stored at Selestar, Singapore.

    July 1980


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: DC-6B N54CA was the last of the Bird Air trio still at Seletar. After clandestine work in the SE Asian war zones, these were based at Seletar running cargo and live cattle exports to the Middle East. By 1980 they had been retired and sold to USA and only N54CA remained. Purchased by Californian air tanker company Sis Q Flying Services for engines and parts only, ferry pilots sent to collect the hard-worked DC-6B refused to fly it because of advanced corrosion. It was later broken up at Seletar.

    27 October 2014

    Civil registration, N54CA, cancelled.
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