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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.

Arrival of Dutch emigrants from the Christchurch race on the Harewood airfield, New Zealand, 1953.

See the movie: Bride flight

Even een open deur intrappen: het is een toestel van KLM, meer precies DC-6A met registratie PH-TGA en gedoopt Dr Ir M H Damme.

De filmster uit Bride Flight (van Atlantic Airways, dus niet de originele van KLM) zag er zo uit:

(©2007 koenk68)

In 2007 an airworthy vintage DC-6 of Air Atlantique was painted as KLM DC-6A Liftmaster "Dr. Ir. M.A. Damme" for the filming of the movie "Bride Flight".

This picture was taken at Hamburg Airport in September 2007:

Thanks for the picture! It's great to compare the two.

After passing through a series of operators, this aircraft (PH-TGA, Douglas Serial No. 44076/391) would meet its end after an in-flight engine fire resulted in a non-fatal landing accident at San Juan Airport (SLJN) in San Juan, Bolivia on February 6, 1974. At that time the aircraft was owned and operated by ALCON (Aerolineas Comerciales Nacionales) with the registration CP-947. Due to the damage sustained (nose gear collapse and forward fuselage), the aircraft was written off.