Original postcard caption:

Braniff ordered six DC-6s in 1946, at a cost of $700,000 each, and placed the first into service on November 5, 1947, on domestic flghts. A push button control converted the 52 specially designed sleeper seats into berths for 32 passengers. The carrier later ordered an additional three aircraft and the nine plane fleet served Braniff until retirement in 1965. Shown here in its final color scheme, the initial delivery DC-6 accepts passengers on a cold December day in 1962, at Kansas City Municipal Airport.

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04/15/2018. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "One of the 174 DC-6s built, this aircraft was first flown on July 3, 1947, registered as N90881. It was delivered to Braniff on August 23, 1947 and was deregistered July 1, 1965. That month it was sold to the airline Mexicana de Aviacion in Mexico City and registered XA-SET, only five months later, October 10, 1965, it was sold to another Mexican airline, SAESA (Servicios Aereos Especiales SA). After it had been withdrawn from use it became instructional airframe with the Mexican AF under the serial ETP-10016."