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c/n 45201

DC-6BF

Date

Reg

Service / Fate

d4 May 1957

N576

Northwest Orient Airlines

bt 26 Feb 1965

SU-ANM

United Arab Airlines

bt 4 April 1968

OY-STS

Sterling Airways

lsd Aug 1972

United Nations (Leased)

ret Feb 1973

Sterling Airways

bt April 1973

N515TS

Concare Aircraft Leasing

cvt July 1973

Converted to DC-6BF

bt Aug 1973

Zantop International Airlines

wfu

Withdrawn from use and stores Willow Run, Detroit, Michigan

bt Nov 1990

Interglobal Products of Florida

bt Dec 1990

ZS-MTE

Wonderair /Avia (Gert de Klerk) Wonderboom & Freeway airstrip

9Q-CMC

Trans Cargo Air Services

April 1998

9Q-CJX

Trans Cargo Air Services (Kiki Lemaire) Rand Airport

Jan 2004

Scrapped Rand Airport

 

 

c/n 45201

ZS-MTE

Wonderboom Airport

27 June 1991

Photograph: Omer Mees

 

c/n 45201

ZS-MTE

Wonderboom Airport

27 June 1991

Photograph: Omer Mees

 



c/n 45201
9Q-CMC
Kinshasa N’Djili Airport 23 November 1994
Photograph: Michel Anciaux

 

 

 

 

c/n 45201

9Q-CJX

Rand Airport

April 1998

Photograph: Reg Rivers Collection via SAAF Museum Swartkop