Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-6B N6121C
(c/n 44688)
This
rare image is from the Mike Sparkman collection. Eastern only had
seven DC-6Bs and these
were leased and operated
from 1955 to 1962 in mainly high density 102 seat tourist
configuration.
Pursuant to that, N6121C was built early in 1955
for non-sked operator North American Airlines
(later Trans-American
Airlines) in high density mode. In fact, when its lease
with EAL was done
it returned to another
non-sked, Twentieth Century Airlines. After a decade in the
Middle East with
Trans Mediterranean Airways
as OD-AEG it returned to the US in 1974 with Zantop International
Airlines as N90688, being
finally withdrawn from use in 1981..