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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:C-46D-5-CU Commando
    Last Military Serial:42-101198 USAAF
    Construction Number:30653
    Last Civil Registration:HH-DGA
    Compressed ID:Curtiss C-46D-5-CU sn 42-101198 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-46D-5-CU by Curtiss at Buffalo, NY, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-101198.
    Commenced construction as C-46A-50-CU but delivered as a C-46D-5-CU.

    November 1944

    Left at Karachi, India.

    4 October 1946

    To Government of India.
    Sold to India.

    1950

    Withdrawn from use.
    Placed in storage.

    18 October 1954

    To Borges Tillotson Aircraft of Sacramento, CA with new c/r N68851.

    12 January 1955

    To Stephen F. Williams, Sacramento, CA keeping c/r N68851.

    13 May 1955

    Civil registration, N68851, cancelled.

    July 1956

    To LDCA (Lineas Aereas del Caribe), Colombia with new c/r HK-829.

    1957

    To Trans Chile with new c/r CC-CND.

    1963

    To Lineas Aereas Sud Americana with new c/r CC-CDC.

    1973

    Withdrawn from use and placed in storage at Miami, FL.

    1975

    To Victor Salas.

    1976

    Withdrawn from use and placed in storage at Opa Locka, FL.

    15 July 1979


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1979 photo at Opa Locka, Florida - of a Curtiss C-46 Commando operated by LASA - Linea Aerea Sud Americana

    To Servicios Aeros R. D., Panama with new c/r HP-977.

    1986

    To Haiti Air Freight with new c/r HH-DGA.

    By April 1988


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at the Museum of Aviation, Macon, GA.

    7 July 1990


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: Sitting in PAP missing number one engine.

    27 August 1990

    Withdrawn from use and place in storage.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    Loaned to WR-ALC/MU, Robins AFB, GA.

    27 August 1991

    To Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Macon, GA.
    View the Location Dossier

    By March 1992

    Markings Applied: Georgia Peach, 198, 201198

    14 March 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 2002


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Museum of Aviation, Warner-Robins, GA.

    12 March 2005


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Museum of Aviation, Warner-Robins, GA.

    By 18 February 2007

    Markings Applied: S, 198, 201198

    18 February 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Warner Robins AFB Museum
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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