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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6BF
    Construction Number:45320
    Last Civil Registration:N444SQ
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6BF cn 45320 cr N444SQ
    Latest Owner or Location:Oakland Aviation Museum, Metropolitan Oakland International Airport / North Field, Oakland, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-6B.

    23 January 1958

    To Northwest Orient Airlines with new c/r N579.

    16 March 1965

    To United Arab Airlines with new c/r SU-ANO.

    1 January 1966

    To Yemen Airways with new c/r 4W-ABF.
    Leased in by.

    1967

    To United Arab Airlines with new c/r SU-ANO.

    18 December 1967


    Photographer: Danny Tanner
    Notes: At London Heathrow

    10 June 1968

    To Sterling Airways with new c/r OY-STT.

    From 10 July 1971 to June 1973

    To Sterling Sweden with new c/r SE-ENZ.

    27 July 1972


    Photographer: Leo Larsen
    Notes: At Copenhagen-Kastrup

    June 1973

    To Concare Aircraft Leasing with new c/r N515TP.

    December 1973

    Converted to a DC-6BF.

    Circa 1974


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection

    March 1975

    To Sis-Q Flying Services with new c/r N444SQ.
    Operated with markings: 44

    5 June 1975

    Certificate of airworthiness for N444SQ (DC-6B, 45320) issued.

    May 1985

    To MacAvia International Corporation keeping c/r N444SQ.

    13 April 1987


    Photographer: Unknown

    August 1988


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: N444SQ - DC-6 - Macavia at Santa Rosa

    7 February 1991

    To T and G Aviation, Chandler, AR keeping c/r N444SQ.

    November 1993

    To Barron Thomas Aviation keeping c/r N444SQ.

    31 January 1998

    To Nighthawk Air Systems Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N444SQ.

    To Oakland Aviation Museum, Metropolitan Oakland International Airport/North Field, Oakland, CA.
    Only the cockpit section survies here.
    View the Location Dossier

    1 January 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for N444SQ (DC-6B, 45320) issued.

    27 October 2010


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: 2010 photo at Oakland Aviation Museum

    8 September 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at Oakland Aviation Museum in Oakland, California.

    23 January 2018

    Civil registration, N444SQ, cancelled.

    Withdrawn from use.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    AMCAR
    Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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