303. PH-MAM Douglas DC-6A MAC Martins Air Charter LPL 23SEP68
Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 21-Apr-15, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 28-Oct-23.
"You'll never get that in there mate". They did eventually by sliding the boxes in at a 45 degree angle using that puny little forklift, although it took them all afternoon. A 'Hi-lo' with a roller ball bed would have had it done in 30 minutes but they weren't invented in 1968.
Built as a DC-6A with main-deck cargo doors it was originally delivered to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in Nov-53 as PH-TGB, it was re-registered PH-DFB in Feb-54.
It was sold to the General Electric Company as N4065K in Jan-61 and stored. In 1965 it was sold to the Charlotte Aircraft Corporation and sold to MAC Martins Air Charter in Dec-66 as PH-MAM.
Inex Adria bought it in May-71 and it became YU-AFG. It was sold to Alyemda, Yemen, in Jun-76 as 7O-ABO and was withdrawn from use and stored at Aden in 1979. It sat in the middle of the airfield gathering dust for many years until it was broken up in the mid 1990's.
303. PH-MAM Douglas DC-6A MAC Martins Air Charter LPL 23SEP68
Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 21-Apr-15, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 28-Oct-23.
"You'll never get that in there mate". They did eventually by sliding the boxes in at a 45 degree angle using that puny little forklift, although it took them all afternoon. A 'Hi-lo' with a roller ball bed would have had it done in 30 minutes but they weren't invented in 1968.
Built as a DC-6A with main-deck cargo doors it was originally delivered to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in Nov-53 as PH-TGB, it was re-registered PH-DFB in Feb-54.
It was sold to the General Electric Company as N4065K in Jan-61 and stored. In 1965 it was sold to the Charlotte Aircraft Corporation and sold to MAC Martins Air Charter in Dec-66 as PH-MAM.
Inex Adria bought it in May-71 and it became YU-AFG. It was sold to Alyemda, Yemen, in Jun-76 as 7O-ABO and was withdrawn from use and stored at Aden in 1979. It sat in the middle of the airfield gathering dust for many years until it was broken up in the mid 1990's.