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Post by cgold on Aug 16, 2014 0:46:52 GMT -5
I was looking for a pic on a.net and I thought I saw a Convair or something parked in front of a DC-6 with what looked like Bahamasair logos on the fuselage.
Did they ever have or lease a DC-6? Any pics at all of this or am I losing my mind? (Maybe parked at Miami or somewhere in southern Florida in the 1990's?)
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Post by stansdds on Aug 16, 2014 5:38:17 GMT -5
I don't think Bahamasair ever had any four-engined aircraft. I think the biggest prop they ever used was the twin turbo-prop HS-748
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Aug 16, 2014 9:46:06 GMT -5
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Post by Maarten on Aug 16, 2014 9:47:23 GMT -5
Bahamas Airmays was for a time owned by Skyways of London. They used three of of Skyways' Hermes airliners for flights from the Bahamas to Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
This should also answer your question, cgold. Not a DC-6 but a Hermes.
Cheers,
Maarten
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Post by cgold on Aug 16, 2014 11:33:36 GMT -5
I was looking for Convairs out of southern Florida (MIA, FLL, and OPF, etc.) and I would have bet that I saw Bahamasair logos on a DC-6 parked behind a CV of sorts.
Bellomy-Lawson (Aerial Transit, APA, etc.) had quite a few DC-6's but I do not think they are related.
Otherwise, I would have provided an a.net link. I was also looking through some hard literature last night too... Maybe I need to peruse those again.
Thank you all for the info though.
I'll post up what I find... If I find it again. X-/
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Post by cgold on Aug 16, 2014 16:08:30 GMT -5
 Maybe it was this I saw... It's a C-46 but its type-face is similar to what I remember and it looks like their type-face in the 1990's. (Or maybe that DC-6 in the background is it?) |
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Aug 16, 2014 16:26:11 GMT -5
Not clear if it was Bahamasair, though.
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Post by emmemm on Sept 3, 2014 15:23:05 GMT -5
Hi,
in my knowledge there was never a DC-6 on the Bahamian Register and no DC-6 ever had the Bahamas Air coloursceme or titles.
Bahamas Air may had chartered DC-6 freighters from time to time from the Miami part 121 operators.
And by the way, the aircraft behind the Bahamas C-46 at the airlinersnet picture is definetly DC-6A N9232Z (c/n 44915) of Transportes Aereos S.A., TASA.
Cheers
MM
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Post by Dennis the menace on Sept 4, 2014 0:42:08 GMT -5
It looks like an ex Sabena DC-6B that's been converted into a freighter.
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Post by philmoberg on Sept 4, 2014 7:30:05 GMT -5
It looks like an ex Sabena DC-6B that's been converted into a freighter. FWIW Aviateca also operated a couple of similar ex-Sabena conversions. I don't recall that they lasted all that long. |
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Post by sak1134 on Sept 4, 2014 12:31:32 GMT -5
DC-6 aside, is there a repaint of the C-46 in Bahamasair livery?
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Post by Defender on Sept 4, 2014 14:33:23 GMT -5
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Post by Defender on Sept 4, 2014 14:44:15 GMT -5
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Post by Maarten on Sept 4, 2014 14:47:56 GMT -5
I admit: I was wrong.  Cheers, Maarten |
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Post by Defender on Sept 4, 2014 15:04:00 GMT -5
And that's rare too Maarten!
By the way, the other one in the previous photo is ex Belgian International Air Services (OO-ABE), not Sabena. Very similar style of paint scheme but BIAS used red in place of blue. However when the French operator Trans Union bought it they kept the style but changed it to blue and seems that's how it stayed with TASA etc.
Bill
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