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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:C-46F-1-CU Commando
    Last Military Serial:44-78573 USAF
    Construction Number:22396
    Last Civil Registration:N1685M
    Compressed ID:Curtiss C-46F-1-CU sn 44-78573 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a C-46F-1-CU by Curtiss at Buffalo, NY, USA.

    July 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-78573.

    18 September 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 44-78573.

    1948

    To unknown owner.
    Transferred to private owners and served in civilian charter service.

    1950

    To Continental Charters Inc with new c/r N1685M.

    30 November 1954

    To U S Air Force of The National Defense Establishment, Washington, DC keeping c/r N1685M.

    30 November 1954

    Civil registration, N1685M, cancelled.

    1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 44-78573.

    1957

    Withdrawn from use.

    By May 1971

    To 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, NC.
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    15 May 1971


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Instamatic 126 film

    15 May 1971


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Instamatic 126 film

    27 December 2001


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, Fort Bragg, NC.

    27 December 2001


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, Fort Bragg, NC.

    4 May 2012


    Photographer: Owen ORourke
    Notes: At 82nd Airborne Museum, Fort Bragg, NC
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