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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:C-46F Commando
    Last Military Serial:44-78649 USAAF
    Construction Number:22472
    Last Civil Registration:C-GIBX
    Compressed ID:Curtiss C-46F sn 44-78649 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Gimli Airport, Gimli, Manitoba

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    Dates

    Event

    January 1945

    Constructed as a C-46F.

    July 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-78649.

    17 September 1948

    To Pan American World Airways with new c/r N74171.

    29 July 1955

    To Transocean Air Lines keeping c/r N74171.

    1958

    Leased to Westair.

    1959


    Photographer: Midway Airport Historians
    Notes: At Chicago Midway

    7 January 1963

    To Ortner Air Service keeping c/r N74171.

    10 August 1982

    To Ferrer Aviation Inc, Fort Pierce, FL keeping c/r N74171.

    March 1985

    To Northland Air Manitoba with new c/r C-GIBX.

    27 March 1985

    Civil registration, N74171, cancelled.
    Exported to Canada.

    15 May 1985


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: C-GIBX at Winnipeg on 15May85 - As far as I can determine, this was the second 1980s Curtiss Commando for Ilford-Riverton, who changed name to Northland Air Manitoba about this time. First seen on 03Apr85 and here still without titles (doubtless while they sorted things out), it has been fully painted in a livery that would set the trend for later additions. The cheat-line is heavily influenced by the design of former operator Ortner Air Service where it was N74171.

    25 June 1989


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1989 photo at Winnipeg

    1 December 1990

    To Air Manitoba keeping c/r C-GIBX.

    10 September 1993


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: 1993 photo at Winnipeg

    August 1994

    To Relief Air Transport with new c/r 5Y-IBX.

    28 May 1997


    Photographer: Tim Martin
    Notes: At Winnipeg - Just back from famine relief work in Kenya, IBX sits naked compared to how it looked in 1993. Also some of the windows have been blanked.

    July 2001


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 2001 photo at Gimli, Manitoba

    1 September 2004

    To FNT First Nations Transportation Inc, Winnipeg, MB with new c/r C-GIBX.

    23 November 2006

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

    2007

    23 December 2009

    To Sasco Ltd, Libau, MB with new c/r C-GIBX.

    To Gimli Airport, Gimli, MB.
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    11 June 2010

    Civil registration, C-GIBX, cancelled.

    12 August 2014


    Photographer: Cv880A
    Notes: At Gimli Industrial Air Park YGM
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