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Information and background for DC-6B G-SIXC, Douglas Serial Number 45550/1032, previously N93459.
Starting as an air taxi operation in 1969, then known as "General Aviation Services", the name "Air Atlantique" was adopted in 1977. Starting charter flights with the Douglas DC-6, the group eventually located to Coventry Airport, United Kingdom in 1985. Air Atlantique soon incorporated training facilities, engineering shops, and airial reconnaissance.
Air Atlantique operated G-SIXC, which was aquired in 1987 as a freighter.
In it's prior life, it was registered as N93459, and operated as B-1006 with Southern Air Transport, then with Trans Continental Transport. This aircraft was once painted in Air France colors, fictiously representing a DC-4 F-BBDG for the French movie "Une Femme Francaise".
Today, G-SIXC is at home again, in Coventry. It has been refurbished, and made into the "DC-6 Diner". Seating 40 reausteran guests, they can enjoy lunch or dinner in the cabin of a transatlantic prop-engine plane, with waiters summoned using the call buttons above seats. A Cocktail bar is also on-board G-SIXC.
Have fun Guys!
Joseph