The Douglas DC-6 Association
of South Africa
Individual Aircraft History
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c/n 44175
Douglas DC-6B c/n 44175 line number
435
13/01/1954
delivered to SABENA
5/65 to West German
Air Force as CA+024
12/65 converted to
DC-6A/B
1/68 re-serialled
13+02
4/69 to Sterling
Airways as OY-STY
12/12/69 to 12/71 flew
in the Biafra Airlift with Joint Church Aid
4/73 to Concare
Aircraft Leasing Corporation as N515TY
8/73 and 1/93 to
various companies such as Bellomy-Lawson Aviation, Trans Continental,
Trans-Air-Link and Air Trust Limited
15/5/95 to Air
Transport Office (ATO) as 9Q-CRH still in basic Trans Continental
colors
1997 to
Socato
9/97 WFU and stored at
Kinshasa N’Djili Airport
11/97 Broken up
c/n 44175
Air
Transport Office (ATO)
Still in basic Trans
Continental colors
Kinshasa N’Djili Airport 31 July
1995
Photograph: Michel Anciaux
c/n 44175
Air
Transport Office (ATO)
Still in basic Trans
Continental colors
Kinshasa N’Djili Airport 9
Spetember 1995
Photograph: Michel
Anciaux
Comment from Michel Anciaux
"Kinshasa on 5/9/95 where
you can see that the front cargo door was replaced by a steel panel. I was
then told that the aircraft lost its cargo door on a flight. If this is
the case they were lucky to make it back to Kinshasa
alive."