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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A/B
    Last Military Serial:TC-54 FAA
    Construction Number:44102
    Last Civil Registration:N8CA
    Latest Owner or Location:Florida Aircraft Leasing Corp, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    6 July 1953

    To Pan American World Airways with new c/r N8102H.
    Operated with markings: Clipper Golden Age

    November 1967

    Converted to a DC-6A/B.

    11 November 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Argentina with s/n TC-54.

    April 1973

    To Concare Aircraft Leasing Corporation with new c/r N8CA.

    June 1973

    To Zantop International Airlines keeping c/r N8CA.

    September 1975

    To Art Lloyd keeping c/r N8CA.

    November 1975

    To British West Indian Airways keeping c/r N8CA.

    October 1977


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: DC-6BF N8CA was another F.A. Conner lease, still in the paint scheme of previous owner Zantop. Seen landing at Miami in October 1977 in the characteristic DC-6 nose-down attitude

    1 September 1980

    To Florida Aircraft Leasing Corp, Fort Lauderdale, FL keeping c/r N8CA.

    1982

    Impounded in Merida, Mexico.

    1986

    Aircraft seized by Guatemalan Federal Police.

    6 March 1996

    Civil registration, N8CA, cancelled.

    4 May 2017


    Photographer: Prestwick Pioneer
    Notes: Still intact at Merida. It was moved well out the way for a visit by President Clinton having previously been impounded for drug running. It remains here with 3 DC-3s and some GA types. And despite how it looks still on its gear.

    4 May 2017


    Photographer: Prestwick Pioneer
    Notes: At Merida

    4 May 2017


    Photographer: Prestwick Pioneer
    Notes: Underneath N8CA
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