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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&...

Douglas R6D-1 (C-118B) Liftmaster, BuNo 131606 (c/n 43709). Later purchased by Northern Air Cargo (NAC) and registered as N4206L for service in Alaska. Withdrawn from service. Now in storage. UPDATE (October 2016) - Here it is in a more recent photo (June 2016) by Flickr user Alex Rankin:

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)

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.