Dates

Event

1957

Constructed as a DC-6A.

20 November 1957

To Trans Caribbean Airways with new c/r N6539C.

1960

To United States Commerce Department keeping c/r N6539C.

August 1975

Photographer: Richard Vandervord
Notes: Miami. Little did I know that just five years later after conversion back from NOAA Hurricane Hunter to normal civilian configuration, I would get to fly on this magnificent machine as a freighter

August 1975

Photographer: Richard Vandervord

February 1976

To Bellomy-Lawson Aviation keeping c/r N6539C.

From March 1976 to 1 February 1979

To Pacific American Airlines keeping c/r N6539C.

October 1977

Photographer: Geoff Goodall
Notes: DC-6A N6539C with Pacific American Airlines at Honolulu in September 1977. Short-lived Pacific American had taken over Mercer Airways at Burbank, California the previous year and moved operations to Honolulu, hoping to pick up US Navy Pacific Fleet contracts to carry cargo and personnel

From 30 August 1979 to January 1983

To Challenge Air Transport keeping c/r N6539C.

27 October 1979

Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
Notes: At Chicago Midway

27 September 1980

Photographer: Richard Vandervord
Notes: I had just stepped off this at Miami after a memorable flight from Atlanta, landing into the sunrise

March 1983

To Bellomy-Lawson Aviation with new c/r N98BL.

March 1984

To Aerial Transit Company keeping c/r N98BL.

October 1988

Photographer: Richard Vandervord
Notes: Miami

3 June 1991

To Bellomy Lawson Aviation Inc, Miami Springs, FL keeping c/r N98BL.

7 October 1991

Civil registration, N98BL, cancelled.

Scrapped.