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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:C-46F Commando
    Last Military Serial:44-78733 USAAF
    Construction Number:22556
    Last Civil Registration:C-GTPO
    Compressed ID:Curtiss C-46F sn 44-78733 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Buffalo Airways, Hay River, Northwest Territories

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a C-46F.

    From August 1945 to 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-78733.

    1950

    To Flying Tiger Line with new c/r N1258N.

    1957

    Leased to Wien Alaska Airlines.

    7 July 1964

    To Wings Inc keeping c/r N1258N.

    23 September 1966


    Photographer: Peter B Lewis
    Notes: At Reno, Nevada

    June 1969

    To F. A. Conner keeping c/r N1258N.

    September 1970

    To Shamrock Airlines keeping c/r N1258N.

    1976

    To Trans Continental Airlines keeping c/r N1258N.

    May 1985

    To Atkins Aviation Inc with new c/r N519AC (C-46F, 22556).

    5 April 1986


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: This Curtiss Commando was registered to Air Manitoba as C-GTPO a few days later. Traces of the original civil registration N1258N are visible above the tail-wheel before it became N519AC with Atkins Aviation in 1985

    After 6 April 1986

    To Northland Air Manitoba with new c/r C-GTPO (C46F, 22556).

    May 1986


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 1986 photo taken at Winnipeg, Manitoba

    From 8 December 1994 to 27 August 2004

    To Buffalo Airways Ltd, Hay River, NT keeping c/r C-GTPO.

    From 7 October 2004 to 17 November 2010

    To First Nations Transportation Inc (FNT), Libau, MB keeping c/r C-GTPO.

    5 March 2005


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 2005 photo at Gimli MB - Curtiss Commando TPO is in basic Buffalo Airways livery but operated by First Nations Transportation.

    23 November 2006

    To FNT First Nations Transportation Inc, Winnipeg, MB keeping c/r C-GTPO.

    11 June 2010

    To FNT First Nations Transportation Inc, Libau, MB keeping c/r C-GTPO.

    17 November 2010

    To Buffalo Airways Ltd, Hay River, NT keeping c/r C-GTPO.

    Operated by Buffalo Airways, Hay River, NT.
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    26 August 2011


    Photographer: Murray Lundberg
    Notes: In the Buffalo Airways hangar at the Yellowknife Airport (YZF)
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