Pan
American Grace Airways Douglas DC-6B
N6536C (c/n 43536)
This
1953 shot was taken at the same venue as that of the previous DC-6,
i.e. Santiago, Chile.
The aircraft had
been delivered new to the airline
the previous year. On the livery of this DC-6B
the painter
appears to have eliminated the dash between
Pan
American and Grace in the titling,
although
the official corporate name
retained the
hyphen. These luxurious machines were used
on the Miami to Buenos Aires route with
intermediate stops at Panama
City, Quito, Guayaquil,
Lima,
Antofagasta
and Santiago. N6536C was sold in 1962 to the
Chinese Nationalist Air Force
on Taiwan,
becoming C-43536 (same as its
c/n).