A great number of airlines and air forces from several countries included the Douglas DC-6 in their fleets at some point in time. Today most DC-6s are inactive, stored, or preserved in museums; although a number are still flying in northern bush operations in Alaska and Canada, while several are based in Europe and a few other DC-6s are still in operation for small carriers in South America.
Below are listed known operators of this airplane, both past and present (♠ indicate Original operators).
Civil operators
Brothers Air Service (BASCO)
Ariana Afghan Airlines Antigua Seagreen Air Transport
Aerolíneas Argentinas Aerolineas Ini y Cia Aerotransportes Litoral Argentino (ALA) Austral (FAMA) ♠
Australian National Airlines (ANA) ♠ Ansett-ANA British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Trans Australia Airlines
Belgian International Air Services Delta Air Transport Inair Sabena ♠ Sobelair Transpommair
Lloyd Aereo Boliviano SAVCO (Servicios Aereos Virgen de Copacabna)
Lóide Aéreo Nacional ♠ Panair do Brasil Real Transportes Aéreos Varig VASP
Royal Air Cambodge
Buffalo Airways Canadian Pacific Air Lines ♠ Maritime Central Airways ♠ Nordair Pacific Western Transair Wardair Canada
Transocean
ALFA Chile - Aerolineas Flecha Austral Lineas Aereas del Cobre (Ladeco) Lineas Aerea Nacional de Chile (LAN Chile) ♠ Lineas Aereas Sud Americana (LASA) Solastral Taxpa - Taxis Aereos del Pacifico Transglobal
Aerovias Condor de Colombia Aerocosta Lineas Aereos Taxader Rutas Aereas Soceidad Aerea Medellin Tampa Cargo
Lineas Aereas Costarricenses (LACSA) Transportes Aereos de Integracion (TAISAP)
Nordair Sterling Airways
Compania Dominicana de Aviacion (CDA)
Aerolineas Nacionales del Ecuador (ANDES) Ecuatoriana
United Arab Airlines
Aerolineas El Salvador
Ethiopian Air Lines ♠
Finlantic Kar Air
Aeromaritime d'Affretement Agile Azur Air France Air Inter Airnautic Compagnie de Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux (TAI) ♠ Trans-Union Union Aéromaritime de Transport (UAT) ♠
Germanair Luft-Lloyd Sudflug Sudwestflug Transportflug
Olympic Airways ♠
Aviateca
ADSA
Sahsa Transportes Aéreos Nacionales
Cathay Pacific Airways ♠
Icelandair Loftleidir
Bayu Indonesia PN Aerial Survey Trans Nusantara Airways Zamrud Airlines
Iran Air Persian Air Services
Alitalia ♠ Linee Aeree Italiane (LAI) ♠ Societa Aerea Mediterranea (SAM)
Air Afrique
Japan Air Lines ♠
Air Jordan Alia
Kuwait Airways Corporation Trans Arabia Airways
Lao United Airlines Royal Air Lao
Air Liban ♠ Lebanese International Airways Trans Mediterranean Airways
Libavia
Interocean Airways
Madair
Malta International Airways
Aerocarga Aeronaves de Mexico Aeromexico Guest Aerovias Mexico Mexicana de Aviación ♠ SAESA
Namibia Commercial Aviation
Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua (Lanica)
KLM ♠ Transavia
Caraibische Lucht Transport Mij NV (CLTM)
Tasman Empire Airways (TEAL)
Pan African Airlines
Braathens South American and Far East Airtransport Fred. Olsen Airtransport
Aerovías Panamá Aero Fletes Internacionales (AFISA) Internacional de Aviacio (Inair) Rutas Aereas Panemenas (RAPSA)
Aerolineas Peruanas Faucett
Filipinas Orient Airways Philippine Airlines ♠
TAP SATA (Goa) Transportes Aéreos da Índia Portuguesa (TAIP)
Civil Air Transport ♠ Far Eastern Air Transport Winner Airways
Saudi Arabian Airlines Saudi AramcoIthraeyat, 2020. p. 19.
Saber Air
Central African Airways Corporation (CAAC)
Air Vietnam
Aviaco Spantax DC-6B, DC-6B-ST TASSA
Aero-Nord Internord Aviation Osterman Aero Transair Sweden
SAS ♠
Balair Swissair ♠Eastwood/Roach 1991, pp.169-199
Syrian Arab Airlines
Thai Airways International
British West Indian Airways
Air Ferry Air Atlantique, now West Atlantic; a former cargo carrier based in Coventry, England. British Eagle British United Airways Caledonian Airways Cloudmaster Cunard Eagle Airways Eagle Aviation Ltd Hunting-Clan Air Transport ♠ Lloyd International Airways
AAXICO AirlinesWhittle 1971, pp. 77-80 Admiral Airlines Aero Union Air America Air Cargo Express Alaska Airlines All American Airlines American Airlines ♠ Aerovias Sud Americana (aka ASA International Airlines) BirdAir Braniff International Airways ♠ Capital Airlines Conner Airlines Continental Airlines ♠ Currey Air Transport Delta Air Lines ♠ Eastern Air Lines Everts Air Flying Tiger Line ♠ General Airways Great Lakes Airlines ♠ Hawaiian Airlines Holiday Airlines (US airline) International Airlines Lance Air Transport Los Angeles Air Service Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball team, DC-6B used for one season (1961) Macavia International (spraying) Mackey Airlines Mercer Airlines NASA National Airlines ♠
North American Airlines ♠ Northeast Airlines Northern Air Cargo Northeast Airlines ♠ Northwest Orient Airlines ♠ Overseas National Airways ♠ Pacific Southwest Airlines Pan American-Grace Airways ♠ Pan American World Airways ♠ President Airlines Purdue Aeronautics Reeve Aleutian Airways Riddle Airlines ♠ Shamrock Air Lines Sis-Q Flying Service (spraying) Slick Airways ♠ Southern Air Transport Span East Airlines Standard Airways Trans Alaskan Airlines Trans American Airlines ♠ Trans Caribbean Airways ♠ Trans International Airlines Transocean Air Lines Twentieth Century Aircraft United Air Lines ♠ Universal Airlines United States Overseas Airlines Western Airlines ♠ Winner Airways World Airways Zantop Air Transport
Avensa Rutas Aereas Nacionales (RANSA)
Yemen Airlines
Adria Airways Inex-Adria Jugoslovenski Aerotransport {JAT} ♠
Military operators
Argentine Air Force
Belgian Air Force (Four operated from 1960)
Bolivian Air Force
Brazilian Air Force
Chilean Air Force
Chinese Nationalist Air Force
Colombian Air Force
Ecuadorian Air Force
Salvadoran Air Force
French Air Force French Navy
German Air Force
Guatemalan Air Force
Honduran Air Force
Italian Air Force operated six former civilian aircraft from 1962 until 1981aeroflight
Republic of Korea Air Force
Mexican Air Force
Royal New Zealand Air Force No. 40 Squadron RNZAF
Panama Air Force
Paraguayan Air Force
Peruvian Air Force
Portuguese Air Force
United States Air Force ♠ United States Navy ♠
Republic of Vietnam Air Force
Yugoslav Air Force
Zambian Air Force
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