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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:C-46F Commando
    Last Military Serial:385 PNP
    Construction Number:22405
    Last Civil Registration:N516AC
    Compressed ID:Curtiss C-46F sn 385 PNP cn 22405 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hangar 10 Inc

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-46F.
    Curtiss Wright C-46F 22405

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-78582.

    From 8 June 1948 to August 1948

    To Alaska Airlines with new c/r N1241N {1}.

    From 10 December 1948 to 5 August 1949

    To Universal Aviation with new c/r N5076N.

    From 5 August 1949 to 1954

    To Air Transport Associates keeping c/r N5076N.

    8 August 1955

    To Capitol Airways keeping c/r N5076N.

    From September 1964 to 1966

    Leased to Lufthansa.

    1 December 1966

    To Southern Air Transport keeping c/r N5076N.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Policia Nacional del Peru with s/n 385 and operated with these markings: 65-385.

    4 June 1969

    To Intermountain Aviation with new c/r N5076N.

    24 November 1973

    To Rosenbalm Aviation keeping c/r N5076N.

    18 July 1977

    To Bahamas Traders and Cargo Carriers keeping c/r N5076N.

    October 1977


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: N5076N had arrived during the night at Fort Lauderdale a month before my visit in October 1977 and parked on a Grumman dealers ramp by the unknown crew who quickly decamped. Ron Gardiner, the affable airport Operations Manager was left to sort out the mess

    22 November 1977

    To Robert W. Peterson keeping c/r N5076N.

    December 1977

    Seized at Ft.Lauderdale by US Customs Service.

    27 March 1980

    To Aircraft Modifications Inc keeping c/r N5076N.

    1982

    To Clyde E. Forman keeping c/r N5076N.

    July 1983

    To Atkins Aviation Inc, McAllen, TX keeping c/r N5076N.

    30 August 1983

    To Atkins Aviation Inc, McAllen, TX with new c/r N516AC.

    April 1984

    To Hangar 10 Inc keeping c/r N516AC.

    1990

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    25 March 1991

    Civil registration, N516AC, cancelled.
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    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
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     Terry Fletcher
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