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esc201faem 25th January 2023 21:47

C-46F-1-CU
 
Good Morning to all

Looking for the USAAF history of the following aircraft

Curtiss C-46F-1-CU 44-78764
There is some information on its postwar carrer but looking for any information or sources to consult about its wartime ,if it went overseas or stayed stateside.

thank you in advance

Santiago

Alex Smart 26th January 2023 02:41

Re: C-46F-1-CU
 
C-46F-1-CU
From July 1945 So do not expect there was any War service.

22587
44-78764
September 45
N67970 Flying Tiger Line.
Possibly never operated.
Slick owned by Aug 53.
Hit dyke on landing 7 January 57at San Francisco, CA.
Bounced hard, overshot, but undercarriage collapsed on landing. Repaired.
Aaxico
Lsd to Capitol July 60 to last quarter 61.
Lsd to Zantop 12 August 64.
Undercarriage collapsed on landing at Atlanta, GA 8 February 65.
Purch by Zantop 1966.
Became Universal September 66.
To Aviation Associates of Georgia, Mason,GA 1968.
Shamrock Airlines, HapevilleGA, 1969
Plymouth LeasingCo, Plymouth, MI (Ortner), 74.
Transferred Continental Airlines 1976.

Ref: AB's Curtiss C-46 Commando by John M Davis, Harold G Martin and John A Whittle.(1978).

esc201faem 27th January 2023 15:55

Re: C-46F-1-CU
 
Thank you for the information


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