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Text on back: "Tulsa Municipal Airport has 2,005 acres (8.11 sq.km), including all facilities. It also will accomodate the largest aircraft in production."

02/15/2007. Remarks by Jack McKillop: "This was the 113th DC-6/DC-7 built and was delivered to American Airlines of New York, New York, USA, on February 28, 1948 and named "Flagship Utah;" it was subsequently named "Flagship Wilkes Barre" in December 1953. It was sold to Austral (Compania Argentina de Transportes Aereos SACI) of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and delivered as LV-PEC on December 31, 1965; on January 26, 1966, Austral re-registered the aircraft LV-IOM. This DC-6 was traded to a New York broker on October 3, 1968 and stored at Miami, Florida until moved to Greater Southwest Airport, Ft. Worth, Texas, in 1970. It was scrapped there in December 1970."


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Text on back: "Tulsa Municipal Airport has 2,005 acres (8.11 sq.km), including all facilities. It also will accomodate the largest aircraft in production." 02/15/2007. Remarks by Jack McKillop: "This was the 113th DC-6/DC-7 built and was delivered to American Airlines of New York, New York, USA, on February 28, 1948 and named "Flagship Utah;" it was subsequently named "Flagship Wilkes Barre" in December 1953. It was sold to Austral (Compania Argentina de Transportes Aereos SACI) of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and delivered as LV-PEC on December 31, 1965; on January 26, 1966, Austral re-registered the aircraft LV-IOM. This DC-6 was traded to a New York broker on October 3, 1968 and stored at Miami, Florida until moved to Greater Southwest Airport, Ft. Worth, Texas, in 1970. It was scrapped there in December 1970."