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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:C-46D-10-CU Commando
    Last Military Serial:44-77880 USAAF
    Construction Number:33276
    Last Civil Registration:N66326
    Compressed ID:Curtiss C-46D-10-CU sn 44-77880 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Middle East Suppliers

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a C-46D-10-CU by Curtiss at Buffalo, NY, USA.
    Curtiss Wright C-46D 33276

    13 February 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-77880.

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored Bush Field, Georgia.

    28 September 1948

    To Cuba Aeropostal with new c/r CU-C264.

    12 July 1955

    To American Automotive Corporation with new c/r N66326.

    30 July 1955

    To Capitol Airways keeping c/r N66326.

    13 July 1965

    Certificate of airworthiness for N66326 (C-46D, 33276) issued.

    6 February 1969

    To Flying W Ranch keeping c/r N66326.

    November 1969

    To Caribbean Enterprises keeping c/r N66326.

    Circa 1 August 1972


    Photographer: robert brown
    Notes: Owned by Loveable Bra Company of Atlanta, Georgia and photographed at Fulton County Airport FTY. Currently reported to be in a scrapyard in Bogata, Columbia.

    29 January 1973

    To Skyways International Trading keeping c/r N66326.

    26 August 1975

    To Middle East Suppliers keeping c/r N66326.

    October 1975

    Seized by Comombian Government for drug traficking.

    21 August 1990

    To unknown owner with c/r N66326.

    29 October 1990

    To unknown owner with c/r N66326.

    11 November 1992


    Photographer: Peter Garwood
    Notes: C-46 N66326 at Bogata on 11Nov1992

    13 February 2013

    Civil registration, N66326, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in New York, NY.
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