Delivered to United Airlines as DC-6B N37570 in 1956. To other operators from 1968. Converted to a DC-6B(F) freighter in 1974. Leased to St. Lucia Airways as VQ-TAW and returned as N37570 in 1975. To Servicios Aereos Generales as HR-AKW in 1986 then back to N37570 in 1988 then to ILPO Cargo Airlines as XA-RMM and returned as N37570 in 1990. To Legion Express as 5Y-BMM in 1996 then to Universal Airlines as N37570 then N600UA in 1998. Damaged beyond repair in a gear up landing at Cold Bay, AK in 2011.

Delivered to the USAF as 53-3281 in 1955. To the US Border Patrol as N2816J in 1965 then to Bellomy Lawson Aviation in 1973. To SAHSA as HR-SHB in 1973. Returned to Bellomy Lawson Aviation as N2816J in 1977. To other owners from 1978 then to EXPLA as TI-ARM in 1984. Cancelled by 1987. Presumably scrapped.

on display for more than 50 years - and it shows..

Location is not 100% certain, so confirmation is appreciated. Photo via G. Bouma

Retired a year or so after this photograph was taken, and stored at Basel until sold as N617SE with Span East Airlines. Became 9Q-CVM (Lukas Air) and now derelict at Kinshasa, Congo.

Ex OY-KMU (SAS), HS-KMU (on lease to Thai Airways International), SE-BDX (Kar Air). Destroyed by fire in an arson attack at Antwerp 2 January 1974.

Photographer Giuseppe Fabris

now used as an Airbnb (together with a B727 and a DC-9)

Delivered to the US Navy as 131617 in 1953. Preserved at Scott AFB, IL from 1986. Sold to Basler Flight Service as N70BF in 1989 then to Servicios Aereos Ejecutivos as XA-SCZ in 1992. Sold as N70BF in 1998 then to Florida Air Transport in 2000. Converted to sprayer configuration in 2012. Based at Kalaeloa, HI from 2018. Used for oil spill dispersal by the National Response Center.

the combined age of the two cargo sisters below don't even reach a third of the lady above.. VTS650 to McGrath is leaving ANC with a typical low climb rate

Photographer Peter R. Foster

President Truman flying over flooded area. Note improper serial presentation on the presidential aircraft - the tail number should read 6505 according to the rules. Photo from: George Skadding / Life

The final arrival at Sola for the Musum. 01-06-2020 N151 took off from Faribanks, and after ca 30 minutes had to return and go back due to a problem with engine no 3. After approx two hours it took off again and flew to Yellowknife in Canada, which was the final stop before an alomst 15 hours flight across the Atlantic and after a lowpass at Bergen, it came for a lowpass along rwy 18 at Sola, before tunring and arriving rwy 36, shown by these photos. The "QRILL PET ARCTIC WORLD SERIES" is an important sign of how this ferry flight was made possible.

N151 seen at the lowpass it made along rwy 18 before its final lading at rwy 36.. To me personally, it was a tremendous joy to be there and watch it come and arrive after its final flight, led by Robert Everts, the chief of Everts Air Cargo who said "I could gladly have flown this aircaft to Las Palmas" after he had arrived with this beautufil DC-6B repanited as it was when it left BU in 1971 as LN-SUB. Now it has been beautiful restored even inside and will soon be under roof at Sola Air Museum, led by real Aviation enthusiasts. In the pandemic: "The Old one flies, while new ones are grounded

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