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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:C-46F Commando
    Last Military Serial:44-78576 USAAF
    Construction Number:22399
    Last Civil Registration:N1651M
    Compressed ID:Curtiss C-46F sn 44-78576 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Everts, Fairbanks, Alaska

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-46F.

    July 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-78576.

    19 May 1948

    To Skyways International Trading with new c/r NC1651M.

    14 November 1950

    To Arabian American Airways with new c/r N1651M.

    15 May 1951

    To New York Car Wheel Company keeping c/r N1651M.

    20 June 1951

    To Air America keeping c/r N1651M.

    15 October 1951

    To Colonial Trust Company of New York keeping c/r N1651M.

    4 October 1954

    To Interair Parts Corporation keeping c/r N1651M.

    1 December 1954

    To Aerovias Inc keeping c/r N1651M.

    14 August 1955

    To Marshall M. Landy keeping c/r N1651M.

    7 July 1956

    To Aerovias Inc keeping c/r N1651M.

    3 July 1957

    To Alaska Airlines keeping c/r N1651M.

    20 December 1963

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1651M (C-46F, 2508) issued.

    21 December 1965

    To Reeve Aleutian keeping c/r N1651M.

    18 July 1973

    To Fairbanks Air Services keeping c/r N1651M.

    1975


    Photographer: Dana A.Nichols
    Notes: At Anchorage International, Alaska

    6 January 1976

    To Great Northern Airlines keeping c/r N1651M.

    15 October 1979

    To Evans Aviation keeping c/r N1651M.

    May 1991

    To Cascade Aviation keeping c/r N1651M.

    10 November 1998

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N1651M.

    5 May 2000


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

    By August 2003

    Based at Everts, Fairbanks, AK.
    Stored here.
    View the Location Dossier

    6 May 2019

    Civil registration, N1651M, cancelled.


    Photographer: G. White
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