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The MSFS PMDG DC-6 Livery Thread

Ramp Presence

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Steve- she's gonna be grand! Thanks for all your efforts on this.C
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Thanks Carl...I know you'll enjoy her. Adding even more details as I've contacted an A&P who used to work at Everts and he's been sending me a treasure trove of pics. :)She just draws attention when she's on the ramp. :)
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Back on track again after sim update. The Braathens Safe DC-6B LN-SUB (2020 livery - "Social Distancing") is almost finished.

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Skyhawk18 said:
Back on track again after sim update. The Braathens Safe DC-6B LN-SUB (2020 livery - "Social Distancing") is almost finished.
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Beautiful work! I always liked Braathens....it was one of my earliest paints, back in 2003 (I think)...on the Eric Cantu 737-200. Those were the days. :)
 
One more Navy livery....

My view is that you can never have too many Navy aircraft. :)

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Just working on some final details (he says as he always manages to find one more thing to tweak, LOL)
 

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Biafran Airlift DC-6B Fragtflug Iceland TF-FRB | 1969

A little history:

This DC-6B was was build 1956 with c/n 45067/709 and delivered to Western Air Lines as N93116 and sold in 1962 to Japan Air Lines as JA6208. In June 1968 it was bought by Onyx Corporation, reregistered PH-TRK and briefly flown by the Dutch company Transavia. The next year it was registered TF-FRB for Fragtflug who reregistered it again in December 1969 to TF-OAB. In that time TF-FRB is flying the famous Biafran Airlift, wearing first old Japan Air Lines painting with ICRC Red Cross stickers. Later in 1969, when airlift to Uli airstrip becomes more and more dangerous, it was reregistered to TF-OAB, wearing famous olive green/grey paint scheme. Later in mid 1970, TF-OAB flew humanitarian aid flights in Cambodia for UNICEF.

In 1972 TF-OAB was sold to Boreas Corporation as N14436; the next year Kimex bought it. Indiasa Aviation Corp. bought N14436 in 1978 and reregistered it as N120AC. Virgin islands Int'l Airways leased it in 1980, but the next year it was impounded in Colombia. The Air Force made use of it and registered it as FAC-902; it crashed near Letica, Amazona on 24Jul85. Because of a strike among Avianca pilots, Air Force transport planes were used on domestic services. The aircraft was flying in bad weather when no. 3 engine fire caused the plane to crash into the jungle. All 80 people on bord were sadly killed.


TF-FRB_1969 by TiAr, auf Flickr

TF-FRB_1969_2 by TiAr, auf Flickr

https://flightsim.to/file/19347/biafran-airlift-dc-6b-fragtflug-iceland-tf-frb-1969

Enjoy!

Thomas
 
Here are two more Biafran airlift repaints from Fragtflug Iceland, the TF-OAB (in the background) is the TF-FRB, but this time in olive green/grey livery with a UNICEF sticker. Also in this dress is the "sister" TF-OAA, which after the Biafra mission was already used in this livery from June 1970 to 1972 in European passenger and cargo traffic.

Keflavik by TiAr, auf Flickr

Coming soon.

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TiAr,

Those are great looking paint jobs. Looking forward to adding them to my hangar, and taking them out for some flights.
 
TiAr said:
Here are two more Biafran airlift repaints ...
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Thanks so much for the Fragtflug paints! I'd posted a request on Flightsim.to for TF-OAA in ex-JAL colors, much like your TF-OAB ex-City of Sapporo. No need to cover that base, of course... this is a more-than-ample supply. Glad to finally have some special-mission paints to work with.

Speaking of which... and not to sound greedy or ungrateful, but... any chance of any of the U.S. Department of Commerce/Weather Bureau/NOAA DC-6 hurricane hunters? Storm chasing in MSFS might produce some, ah, interesting moments...

Hope you'll consider it - and again, thanks for what you've done so far.
 
Alan_A said:
Thanks so much for the Fragtflug paints! I'd posted a request on Flightsim.to for TF-OAA in ex-JAL colors, much like your TF-OAB ex-City of Sapporo. No need to cover that base, of course... this is a more-than-ample supply. Glad to finally have some special-mission paints to work with.

Speaking of which... and not to sound greedy or ungrateful, but... any chance of any of the U.S. Department of Commerce/Weather Bureau/NOAA DC-6 hurricane hunters? Storm chasing in MSFS might produce some, ah, interesting moments...

Hope you'll consider it - and again, thanks for what you've done so far.
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First, thank you all for your nice words.

Alan, I will do both, TF-FRA (TF-OAA), wearing different paintings as TF-FRB and USDoC/NOAA Hurricane Hunter. But first, I have to finish HB-IBS in its Biafran times

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That's fantastic - glad to welcome those, too. You're giving us quite a hangar.

The hurricane hunter(s) will have to be a bit of an approximation, since the model doesn't include a radar housing or gust probe. But I'm guessing we can imagine our way around that. I used to fly simulated weather observation in Coastal Command B-17s, so this will be a nice step twenty or twenty-five years into the future.

Take your time!
 
First two more Biafran Airlift repaints. Both are wellknown and WIP. First Balair HB-IBS and second Fragtflug TF-FRA in its ex Japan Air Lines painting, both 1969. Is later TF-OAA.

HBIBS_1969_5 by TiAr, auf Flickr

HBIBS_1969_3 by TTiAr, auf Flickr

TFFRA_1 by TiAr, auf Flickr

TFFRA_4 by TiAr, auf Flickr

Both will available the next days on flightsim.to.

Hope you like it

Thomas
 
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