DC-6 in the weeds facts

jwc50 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:13 pm

The Eastern DC-7B group have ambitious plans that are hung up with the FAA presently. They are trying to get approval to sell sightseeing historic flights to help fund the operation.

http://sites.google.com/site/historical ... oundation/

I hope it works out. Their restored airplane is a real beauty.

jwc50 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:22 pm

[/quote]Never saw a C118 in dayglo.Seen a few C54's with it.[/quote]

That was during that roughly 5 year time frame from about 1958 to about 1962 or 63 when just about every type of Air Force Transport or Tanker aircraft was awash in day-glo color (C-47s, C-54s, C/KC-97s, C-118s, C-119s, C-121s, C-124s, C-131s, C-133s, C/KC-135s and others). Among other types some Air National Guard and Air Force F-86L Sabres wore the day-glo also during this time period. By 1964 or so much of this day-glo had disappeared.

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:11 pm

Jim,

Can you give us some more details about the '43 L-4?
I remember the DC-6 parked on the ramp out at New Braunfels when I was a student pilot. Didn't it also reside at Stinson for a while?

Ryan

Holedigger · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:42 pm

Google maps is newly updated enough to show her. No idea that place was even there, but it has been 26 years since I lived in Seguin. Just south of I-10 a bit SE of Randolph AFB.

nighthawkair · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:41 am

The L-4 is completely original except the engine, it is finished with faded olive green color, so it even looks original, but has no markings, yet, It has the STC for the 0-200, but has all of the original exhaust and heat collectors, so you really can not tell by looking at it that it has 105 H.P under the hood. It really performs well. I still have the original 65 Cont, firewall forward, as removed. I have a picture of it with the DC-6, I will post it soon.

JIM

Enemy Ace · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:31 am

I'm afraid the only real solution is to move away, either build your own airport somewhere or find a place that you can lease cheap. The bad guys never give up in this sort of thing, they will keep you aggravated and tied up forever.
I was in a similar situation for several years, I had a valid lease for my Mx shop, the FBO wanted the shop gone so they could lease the hangar to a corporate citation operator, I defeated them in court twice but they just kept coming up with more things to try and harass me with, it was never going to end. I finally just moved out and being free of the stress was wonderful. The FBO never did get the jet lease they wanted, and lost a fortune in rent from me.
Texas being what it is I imagine you won't have too hard a time finding like minded airplane operators to share your new field where you can do what you want when you want..... :finga:

nighthawkair · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 6:36 am

Enemy Ace,

????

You are in Germany, judging by the time of the reply, If so I am close by, Liege, Belgium

Chief · **Joined:** Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:18 pm **Posts:** 187

Reference the "Day Glo" paint on MATS aircraft. We in MATS refered to it as "International Orange". We had it on most MATS aircraft until the "Cuban Crisis" in October 1962. We had to remove the paint before we could fly our C-124's loaded with troops to Florida to get ready for the "invasion". We had a big temporary around-the-clock paint stripping operation set up at Dover to get it all removed.

We even had the "International Orange" paint on the VC-137 we used for Air Force One for "Ike". However, Jackie Kennedy had that changed very soon after the inauguration.

Silverplate · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:31 pm

nighthawkair wrote:

The L-4 is completely original except the engine, it is finished with faded olive green color, so it even looks original, but has no markings, yet, It has the STC for the 0-200, but has all of the original exhaust and heat collectors, so you really can not tell by looking at it that it has 105 H.P under the hood. It really performs well. I still have the original 65 Cont, firewall forward, as removed. I have a picture of it with the DC-6, I will post it soon.

JIM

By chance are you the same Jim that operatered out of TMB many years ago...Mike

nighthawkair · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:44 pm

Yes,

In fact the S2F, and the DC-6 were there for a while, and the L-4 was at richards field for a few years.

Jim

Mike Robinson · **Joined:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:26 am **Posts:** 76

I was here Jim. I'm sorry. Now I understand the story. It def was too much to talk about long distance.

Percival Pembroke · **Posted:** Tue May 01, 2012 6:51 am

This message is for the DC-6 owner Jim MacIvor.
Hello Jim,
I am an aviation historian in the UK specialising in the Percival Pembroke aircraft for over 40 years. I would like to correspond with you regarding your ownership of Pembroke N702JM. Did it ever carry that registration? The current owner, Sean Keating, is a good friend.
Please contact me
tom(at)singfield.freeserve.co.uk
Change the (at) to @.
Thanks
Tom Singfield
Horsham
UK

wendovertom · **Posted:** Tue May 01, 2012 9:45 am

Whatever happened to the DC-6 and litigation? I hope Jim won!

Tom P.

dinghao · **Joined:** Wed Feb 20, 2013 7:40 pm **Posts:** 47

Went out today to have a look at her. Looks the same as she has for many years. In the company of a couple of beech 18s and the nose sections of two or three other Sixes. I think Jim did indeed win the litigation, as the fence is down and looks like full access to the strip is again available.

zorro7 · **Joined:** Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:07 pm **Posts:** 483

DC-6 Folks;

Talkig about shor landing DC-6s. Anyone remembers in AC magazine a drug running DC-6 that landed in S. Alabama in less that 1000 ft dirt strip?? c. 1980s.

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