Today we will talk about the history of an airplaneón that perhaps many are unaware, the DC-6 which is located in the heart of La Carolina Park in Quito.
¿They remember the roars of the engines that movedíeven the sky is removedñO? Hoy, in the middle of the bustle of the city, lies a silent witness to a golden age of aviationón. We talk about Douglas DC-6B, a colossus of the air that crossedó the skies of Ecuador for several toños.
Two of them continue to defy the passage of time, and one has a particularly moving story. We are referring to the DC-6B that is located in the heartón of the north center of Quito, in La Carolina Park.
El Douglas DC-6, It is a four-engine pistón designñated in the middle of the 20th century, wateró an indelible mark on aviationón commercial. On Ecuador, four of these planes arrived laterés to provide service in LAN Chile (before operatingó en Western Air Lines and Braniff) and which were later purchased by the Force AéEcuadorian area, but we will focus on one specificífic in this post.
the grandfatherón DC-6 of La Carolina
We start with a video that I made together with the great historian Aeronáuseful Guido Cháturn and in this AeroReportaje on the YouTube channel we tellún más details of this emblemático avión:
the grandfatherón in questionón teníto the motherícula HC-AVI / FAE-45063 civil registry since it operatedó with TAME tooén and the FAE, un DC-6B, was removed from service in old Quito airport at the end of the 70. Instead of being scrapped, with tható I decided itón to preserve it as a monument to aviationón in the park más important of the city.
Transferred throughés of Amazonas Avenue, the grandfatheróIt was located in what is now a park (It used to be the first airfieldón of the city landing hereí the Telégraph I and Ecuador I), where it remains as a tangible testimony of the history of aviationóecuadorian n.
A user on YouTube, Carlos Espinosa, that surprisingly workedó in this avión to get it back, they tell usó That this DC-6 sufferó an accident landing on Quito, where the top tailó the track and genó andñthe structural. Due to the daños, Parts from other decommissioned DC-6 aircraft were used. Ecuadorian from Aviación such as the rear cone and parts of the cabin to restore it and put it in better condition.
At that moment before the pétotal loss of equipment, the FAE I gift itó a Works Púwars along with managementón of the Mayor of Quito from élittle Álvaro Pérez, with the aim of converting it into a museum of Force A scale aircraftéarea and aviationón general, but unfortunately due to the vandalism it sufferedó the grandfatherón, the entire project was destroyedído.
This type of preservationóIt is crucial to keeping the memory of aviation alive.ón and to educate new generations about technological advancesólogic and challengesíwhat the pioneers of aviation facedón. Let's wait for the avión can be recovered and maintained in a better way, along with infographicías or a summary of your story so that así all generations can know it.
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