FS2004 Transavia Douglas DC-6 (Revised)

In November 1966 the Dutch charter operator Transavia Holland started its activities with 2 Douglas DC-6 and 1 Douglas DC-6B aircraft. Despite stiff competition from KLM and Martinair Holland, Transavia was able to conquer a considerable part of the charter and inclusive tours market and expanded its fleet with a several more DC-6B's. In 1968 Transavia became involved in the relief airlift from Sao Tome to Biafra using its fleet of DC-6's. The next year the DC-6's were sold to Flughjalp who continued flying the Biafra missions till January 1970. Featured here are DC-6 PH-TRA (1966 livery) and DC-6 PH-TRB (1968 livery). Today Transavia is a major Dutch low cost and charter airline (owned by Air France-KLM) operating Boeing 737-700 and 737-800 aircraft. These are textures only. You will require Jens B. Kristensens FS2004 Douglas DC-6 (DC6_V20.ZIP). Original textures by Jens B. Kristensen. Repaints by Maarten Brouwer.

• First, make sure that the base model is installed on your system.
• Find the JBK DC6 late folder on your system, and place the folders texture.transavia_1966 and texture.transavia_1968 in there.
• Then open the aircraft.cfg file and paste the following after the other, similar sections at the top of the file - replace the x with the next number in the sequence:

[fltsim.x]
title=JBK Douglas DC-6 Transavia 1966
sim=dc6
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=transavia_1966
kb_checklists=DC6_check
kb_reference=dc6_ref
ui_manufacturer=Douglas
ui_type=DC-6
ui_variation=Transavia Holland PH-TRA 1966
atc_heavy=0
atc_id=PH-TRA
atc_airline=TRANSAVIA
atc_flight_number=001
description=Built at Santa Monica, CA (c/n 43124/126) as an overwater day/sleeper plane. Delivered on 15 June 1948 to SAS as SE-BDF 'Alvar Viking'. The accommodation was 52 (day) or 46 (night) passengers, beds being only available in the rear cabin. The DC-6 served SAS until December 1959, when she was sold to Transair Sweden as SE-BDF 'Knut Folke'. In December 1965 the DC-6 was sold to Boreas Corp. as N301BC and ferried to Venice. She was sold to Transavia Holland in February 1966 as PH-TRA. After approx. 9 months of storage at Beek (nowadays Maastricht/Aachen Airport) PH-TRA,named 'T-Bird Maastricht', was put into service. The accommodation was 80 seats. From 29 Nov 1967 till 30 Apr 1968 the DC-6 was leased by Brothers Air Service Company. From 16 Oct 1968 till 10 Feb 1969 PH-TRA was leased by Nordchurchaid for relief flights between Sao Tome and Uli, Biafra. PH-TRA was sold to Flughjalp (Aid by Air) in May 1969 as TF-AAD. She was damaged at Uli in Nov 1969 and ferried from Sao Tome to Prestwick. There she was donated to BAA Fire Service. Original textures by Jens B. Kristensen, repaint by Maarten Brouwer.
ui_typerole="Propliner"
ui_createdby="JBK"

[fltsim.x]
title=JBK Douglas DC-6 Transavia 1968
sim=dc6
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=transavia_1968
kb_checklists=DC6_check
kb_reference=dc6_ref
ui_manufacturer=Douglas
ui_type=DC-6
ui_variation=Transavia Holland PH-TRB 1968
atc_heavy=0
atc_id=PH-TRB
atc_airline=TRANSAVIA
atc_flight_number=002
description=Built at Santa Monica, CA (c/n 43130/119) as an overwater day/sleeper plane. Delivered on 27 May 1948 to SAS as SE-BDM 'Amund Viking'. The accommodation was 52 (day) or 46 (night) passengers, beds being only available in the rear cabin. The DC-6 served SAS until December 1959, when she was sold to Transair Sweden as SE-BDM 'Tommy Folke'. In December 1965 the DC-6 was sold to Boreas Corp. as N901BC and ferried to Venice. She was sold to Transavia Holland in February 1966 as PH-TRB. After approx. 9 months of storage at Beek (nowadays Maastricht/Aachen Airport) PH-TRB, named 'T-Bird Beek', was put into service. The accommodation was 80 seats. From 19 Nov 1968 till 12 May 1969 PH-TRB was leased by Nordchurchaid for relief flights between Sao Tome and Uli, Biafra. PH-TRB was sold to Flughjalp (Aid by Air) on 12 May 1969 as TF-AAE. She was damaged at Uli 12 June 1969 and ferried to Sao Tome the next day. There she was stored and reduced to spares. Original textures by Jens B. Kristensen, repaint by Maarten Brouwer.
ui_typerole="Propliner"
ui_createdby="JBK"

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