Douglas DC-6 variant
Douglas DC-6 DC-6C
Convertible cargo/passenger version: the two cargo doors of the DC-6A with removable passenger seats.
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History
Freight in the morning, passengers in the afternoon
The DC-6C is the fourth of the versions Douglas designed on the stretched fuselage: it combines the two cargo doors of the DC-6A with removable passenger seats, so the same aircraft could serve either role as the day's demand dictated.
Like the DC-6B it could fly nonstop from the eastern United States to Europe, though on the way back, into the westerlies, it had to refuel at Goose Bay or Gander. It was the formula that anticipated the convertible jets of the following decade, and it explains why so many DC-6s ended their lives as freighters: the airframe took the change without major surgery.