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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:Super 46C
    Last Military Serial:44-78678 USAAF
    Construction Number:22501
    Last Civil Registration:CP-1616
    Compressed ID:Smith Super 46C sn 44-78678 USAAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:North East Bolivian Airways

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a C-46F.
    Curtiss Wright C-46F 22501

    31 July 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-78678.

    1949

    To Biscayne Aircraft Corporation with new c/r N5617V.

    1949

    To Flying Tiger Line keeping c/r N5617V.

    1954

    To Aaxico Airlines keeping c/r N5617V.

    February 1955

    To Canadian Pacific Airlines keeping c/r N5617V.

    Converted to a Super 46C by Smith.

    March 1963

    To Carolina Aircraft Corporation with new c/r N355K.

    1966

    To Airstar Inc keeping c/r N355K.

    16 June 1966

    Civil registration, N355K, cancelled.

    16 June 1966

    To Airstar Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N355K.

    2 July 1976

    To Kendall Aircraft Leasing Corp, Miami, FL with new c/r N8875 {2}.

    From December 1976 to May 1980

    Leased to Air Haiti.

    December 1978


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: N8875 - Curtiss Wright SuperC-46C Commando - Air Haitileased from Kendall Aircraft Leasing) in December 1978

    6 November 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Ex C-46D Commando 44-78678 as seen at Miami in November 1979.

    15 February 1980


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Port-au-Prince

    12 September 1980

    Civil registration, N8875 {2}, cancelled.

    September 1980

    To North East Bolivian Airways with new c/r CP-1616.

    Circa October 1980


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: On the Air Haiti ramp in MIA before delivery to NEBA. Now registered CP-1616.

    5 December 1988

    Written off.
    Damaged beyond repair after skidding off runway at Trinidad, Bolivia.

    26 May 2008


    Photographer: Proplinerman
    Notes: At Trinidad, Bolivia

    5 July 2011

    Civil registration, N355K, cancelled.
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