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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-6 / C-118/R6D Liftmaster
    Latest Model:DC-6A
    Construction Number:44073
    Last Civil Registration:N3050P
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-6A cn 44073 cr N3050P
    Latest Owner or Location:Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd, Fairbanks, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a DC-6A.

    1953

    To Flying Tiger Line with new c/r N34957.

    30 November 1953

    Leased to Northwest Orient Airlines.

    1963

    To Zantop Airlines keeping c/r N34957.


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Atlanta GA

    1967

    To Saturn Airways keeping c/r N34957.

    1971

    To British West Indian Airways keeping c/r N34957.

    August 1975

    To Zantop International Airlines keeping c/r N34957.

    6 August 1989


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: At Anchorage, Alaska

    March 1990

    To Conifair Aviation with new c/r C-GBYB.

    December 1991

    In Appears prominently in Pole to Pole with Michael Palin where she carries Mike and his camera crew to Antarctica.

    February 1992

    To Royal Aviation keeping c/r C-GBYB.

    29 July 1998


    Photographer: Bob Holland
    Notes: At Quebec City

    20 May 2002

    To Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd, Fairbanks, AK with new c/r N3050P.

    29 May 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Stored at Fairbanks, Alaska

    17 June 2008

    To Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N3050P.

    Withdrawn from use.

    21 June 2012

    Civil registration, N3050P, cancelled.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Transport Canada
    Individual Contributors
     Nathan Dotson
    Terry Fletcher
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