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15 Daniels Album LAX Nov 1949 DC-6A Liftmaster (2)

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• Batman_60 said:

  Douglas DC-6A N30006 c/n 42901-153, first flight April 29, 1949. The first DC-6A, registered first to Douglas, then to Slick Airways as N90806. Sold to Transocean Air LInes as "The Royal Hawaiian" and crashed in the Pacific on a Wake-Hawaii flight on 7-12-53. 58 were killed when the aircraft hit the ocean at high speed 343.8 miles east of Wake. They never determined the cause.

15 Daniels Album LAX Nov 1949 DC-6A Liftmaster (1)

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• A30yoyo said:

  I think they had an annual 'Air Transportation Day' at LAX from 1948 with the fifth one recorded in 1952....presumably the 1949 event was special to mark LAX's new 'International' status books.google.co.uk/books?id=38YHabG2GVEC&pg=PA60&...

35mm slide image

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• TVL1970 said:

  Mercer Airlines DC-6, N901MA (c/n 36326), built as the prototype for the DC-6 family as the Douglas YC-112A. This aircraft would be lost with the lives of three of the six people aboard on February 8, 1976, when it crash landed near Van Nuys Airport (VNY / KVNY). See: aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19760208-0 See also: www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/douglas-yc-112a/