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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:C-46A Commando
    Last Military Serial:42-96654 USAAF
    Construction Number:30316
    Last Civil Registration:N9905F
    Compressed ID:Curtiss C-46A sn 42-96654 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Project Warbird Museum, Asheville, NC

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-46A.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-96654.

    8 March 1961

    To Zantop Air Transport Inc, Inkster, MI with new c/r N9905F.

    By 28 July 1966

    To Zantop Air Transport with new c/r N9905F (Curtiss C-46A, 30316).

    28 July 1966

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. The cargo flight departed Newark International Airport, NJ (EWR/KEWR), United States of America. The accident occurred at Port Elizabeth, NJ (United States of America) while on approach. Narrative: The no. 1 engine failed at a height of 200 feet after takeoff from runway 22. The crew attempted to return to the airport, but were forced to make a wheels up landing on a salt flat. PROBABLE CAUSE: 1) Powerplant structure: master and connecting rods, piston rings - material failure...
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    To Ortner Air Service Wakeman OH.
    The remains were obtained by Ortner.

    26 June 1970

    Civil registration, N9905F, cancelled.

    30 March 1978

    To Leon Cleaver Collection, Norwalk, OH.
    Only the cockpit section was purchased by Mr. Cleaver.
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    30 April 1978


    Photographer: Leon Cleaver
    Notes: Young crew checking out in Commando at Ortners Airport Wakeman Ohio

    2012

    To Project Warbird Museum, Asheville, NC.

    September 2013


    Photographer: Eric Miller
    Notes: C-46 cockpit during clean-up at Asheville, NC
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aviation Safety Network
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Leon Cleaver
    Eric Miller
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