A.T.
I think you must have your C-54/DC-4 confused with a DC-6. Here is the reason.
There were two airlines operating C-54´s/DC-4 in Iceland. They were Air Iceland (Flugfelag Islands) and Loftleidir Icelandic. Loftleidir Icelandic got rid of their last DC-4 in 1961 when it was sold to the UK as G-ARLF. Air Iceland got rid of their last DC-4 in 1967 when it was sold to South Africa.
The last operator of the C-54/DC-4 in Iceland was the Icelandic Coast Guard, which operated their aircraft (TF-SIF) until 1971, when it was sold to Singapore. I doubt very much this aircraft would have been wearing Icelandic registration marks “in the mid 70´s” on a cargo flight in the UK, but you never know!:eek:
Of DC-6 operators, there were two outfits operating cargo flights on Icelandic registrations. From 1971 to 1974 an outfit called Flugfrakt operated TF-OAD (registered in early 1971 and returned to lessor later in the year) and TF-OAE (registered on the 6th of June 1972 and crashed in Germany on the 6th of May 1974).
The other operator was Iscargo. It started operating TF-ABK in June 1973 but it was deregistered as returned to lessor on March 1974, but was later leased back to Iscargo and flew as N-17289 in Iscargo colours. It was burned at Reykjavik airport in 1982. The next aircraft was TF-ABJ, registered in 1973 deregistered in 1974 and burned in Reykjavik in 1978.
Then it is your best bet, TF-IUB. Operated by Iscargo from 1974 until it folded in 1981, dismantled in Reykjavik in 1983. The nose section still survives at the Icelandic Aviation Museum, Akureyri.
http://www.flugsafn.is/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=143&lang=is
A bit of a long post, but here you go!
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