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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:Super 46C
    Last Military Serial:44-78777 USAAF
    Construction Number:22600
    Last Civil Registration:N801FA
    Compressed ID:Smith Super 46C sn 44-78777 USAAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:C R. Everts, Fairbanks, AK

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a C-46D.

    September 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-78777.

    December 1955

    To United States Department of Justice with new c/r N1874C.

    September 1966

    To Nordair with new c/r CF-NAO.

    February 1970

    To Fred W. Rhea with new c/r N1874C.

    April 1970

    To Rich International Airways keeping c/r N1874C.

    June 1970

    To Aircraft Modifications Inc keeping c/r N1874C.

    Converted to a Super 46C by Smith.

    To Aircraft Modifications Inc with new c/r N12500.

    23 June 1972

    To Nordair with new c/r CF-NAU.

    17 May 1974

    To Fairbanks Air Service with new c/r N801FA.

    19 June 1974

    Certificate of airworthiness for N801FA (C-46F, 22600) issued.

    6 January 1976

    To Great Northern Airlines keeping c/r N801FA.

    June 1978

    To Coffee Point Fish Company keeping c/r N801FA.

    September 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Great Northern Airlines had taken over Fairbanks Air Service, whose retired C-46F N801FA was stripped of enginesand parts at their maintenance base at Fairbanks-Metro Field on the edge of town

    April 1984

    To Atorie Air Inc keeping c/r N801FA.

    October 1985

    To Scoben Investments keeping c/r N801FA.

    April 1989

    To C R. Everts, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N801FA.

    5 May 2000


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: At Fairbanks, Alaska

    30 December 2008

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N801FA.

    Based at Everts, Fairbanks, AK.
    Only the fuselage survives with Everts.
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    4 May 2015

    Civil registration, N801FA, cancelled.

    1 January 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for N801FA (C-46F, 22600) issued.

    1 January 2019

    To C R. Everts, Fairbanks, AK with new c/r N801FA.
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