ex American N90732 - already stored at the time, later broken up (photographer not known)

Active as OE-LDM with The Flying Bulls

Delivered to United in July 1953 as N37568 "Mainliner Des Moines", it served until October 1968 when it had flown 32,296 hours. In December 1971 it was acquired by the Fairbanks-based Aero Retardant Inc. who converted it as a fire bomber, becoming Tanker 52 / D2. The following year it was transferred to the sister company Pacific Alaska Airlines, and operated until 1980 when it was sold to B&D Aircraft Inc. for parting out. After lingering at on at Chino for many years it was finally broken up c.1990, the nose section being noted at The Aviation Warehouse at El Mirage, CA. in October 1992.

ex HB-IBO, OH-DCB, HB-IBO, SX-DAM, N111AN, CF-QAN. Wearing fake "Pacific Air" above the door.

Built in 1946 as N37501 for United Airlines. Withdrawn in 1968 and re-registered as N375ED in 1973. Converted to a freighter in 1975 and subsequently operated by various freight companies. Re-registered as N19544 in 1981, N117PM in 1984, CP-2110 by 1991 and CP-2250 in 1993. Seized by the Peruvian Government at Lima in 1995 and with the Peruvian National Police as PNP-236 by 1997. Transferred to the Peruvian Air Force as 381 in 1997 and withdrawn at Lima by 2001. Preserved and displayed at its current location since 2005.

The DC-6 still carried United Air Lines passengers in the late 1960s. N37528 served with them from 1947 until 1968. This is a small fragment of an overview photo, still of decent quality thanks to a large scan of a good 4×5 in negative. Photo by: Marshall Moxom / SFO Museum

Built as US Navy R6D-1 BuNo 131595 but diverted to USAF as C-118A 51-17645. It was retired to MASDC at Tucson in May 1975 and civilianised as N2901F in June 1976. In April 1984 it landed after dark at the closed Johnstown Airport, PA., left the paved area and became stuck in mud. The police were alerted but when they arrived the crew had disappeared, and the aircraft was found to contain bales of marijuana. It was later re-registered N76AF and was later photographed, (qv), at McAllen Airport, TX., in 1987. Its fate is obscured but the registration was cancelled as "Destroyed" in July 1990.

Built 1958, ex CF-MCL and N400US. February 27th 1964 LN-SUK Braathens SAFE. September 20 1973 OO-VGK DAT- Delta Air Transport. October 1976 C-GIOY Conair Aviation, converted to Firebomber. 2001 wfu and broken up by 2003, after 45 years in the air :) Shot by my friend Jan Olav Martinsen at Fornebu in 1972

Built 1953, delivered new to Sabena as OO-CTI July 4th 1953. 1961 Leased Aviaco i basic SN colours. April 1963 SE-CCZ Transair Sweden , named "Uppsala". December 1965 N998BC Boreas. January 27th 1966 LN-SUI Braathens SAFE. May 13th 1971 LN-MTU SAGA Norsk Flytjeneste. December 1972 OO-BVG Delta Air Transport. June 976 OO-VGB Delta Air Transport. April 10th 1974 damaged beyond repair, and broken up 1975. Seen at LGW in June 1970, photograper unknown.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1958 as CF-CZY for Canadian Pacific. Trans Caribbean N4553C 1960, Faucett OB-R750 1964, converted to freighter. Fri Reyes CP-1650 1981. Undercarriage collapsed on landing La Paz 8 May 1987 and destroyed by fire. Note old fashioned "Equipado con Radar titles"

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1953 as R6D-1 131580 for USN, transferred to USAF 1958 as C-118A 51-17636, returned to USN after Korean war. Retired to MASDC 1976 and auctioned to Bellomy Lawson. Civilianized and leased to Guyana Airways 1978, crashed Saint Lucia-Vigie 30 November 1981 while trying to return after engine failure on take off.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1957 for American Airlines , Southern Air Transport 1961, Intermountain 1967, Rich International 1973, leased to Cayman Airways 1979, returned 1981. Aerial Transit N89BL 1987. Withdrawn Aguadilla, PR by 2004. Had initially "Cayman Cargo" titles applied which were lengthened to "Cayman Airways Cargo" before entering service.

Delivered to the USAF in October 1952 as serial 51-3830 it served until consigned to MASDC at Tucson in December 1974. It was sold in May 1976 and registered N44916, but appears to have never been converted for legitimate use and was impounded with a cargo of Marijuana at Valledupar, Colombia in 1990. In November 2001 it was moved to the Parque de los Helados, (Ice Cream Park), in Valledupar where it became an education centre. Remarkably it can still be seen there on Google Earth at what is now called the Parque De La Provincia. Thanks to Ruud Leeuw's excellent web site for much of the above.

DC-6 HH-SCA was formerly operated by Haiti Air Freight. When this picture was taken it was located inside the Chilean UN-Aviation compound at Port-au-Prince (Haiti) where it served as a club house for Chilean military personnel deployed to Haiti with the UN (MINUSTAH) called the MINUS-pub.

Delivered to Northwest Orient as N571 in Nov. 1956, their fleet number 571 can just be discerned on the nose-wheel door. It was sold to Zantop in Aug. 1961, passed on to Universal Airlines in Sept. 1966 and then to Span East Airlines as N612SE in Jan.1970. After Span East closed in 1976 it was acquired by Conner Airlines and re-registered N612CA. Florida Aircraft Leasing became owners in Nov. 1984 and North American Register and Transport, who re-registered it N29630, in Jan. 1988. It was last reported derelict at Puerto Plata Airport, Dominican Republic in April 1998 still wearing N612CA!

Photographed lining up on Runway 28R, (as it then was), at London Heathrow in August 1981. It made its last ever Heathrow visit the following month and was sold to TAL Trans Air Link as N867TA, passing in 1986 to the iconic DC-6 operator Northern Air Cargo Inc. of Anchorage, AK. Sadly it was written off in a landing accident at Deadhorse-Alpine Airstrip, AK., in September 2001.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1956 as 53-5304 for USAF. Civilanized 1976 as N888DG for Pacific Alaska Airlines. Northern Pacific Transport 1985, Universal Airlines 1989. Everts Air Fuel 1995, transferred to Everts Air Cargo 1996 , withdrawn and parted out by 2019.

NTU by Sincereways - became N600UA with Universal Airlines in 1998. Belly landing at Cold Bay (AK) in June 2011, as crew forgot to lower undercarriage