The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurised high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports...
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This is a list of surviving Curtiss C-46 Commandos, including both airworthy and on display or stored aircraft. As of August 2021, there are three aircraft...
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payload Curtiss C-46 Commando, which filled a similar role for the U.S. military. Approximately 100 countries' armed forces have operated the C-47 with...
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interim, the Curtiss-Wright plants at Buffalo, New York and Louisville, Kentucky went over to full production of the Curtiss C-46 Commando. USAAF Materiel...
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The Curtiss C-46 Commando was a transport aircraft originally derived from a commercial high-altitude airliner design. It was instead used as a military...
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War–era Curtiss C-46 Commando transport fleet. First flown on 12 November 1970, quantity production of the type commenced during the following year. The C-1...
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On December 16, 1951, a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46 Commando airliner crashed in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, shortly after taking off from nearby...
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The 1945 Peip'ing Curtiss C-46 Commando crash occurred on October 12, 1945, when a USAAF Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft crashed near Nanyuan Airport in...
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for large-scale C-76 production were rejected. The Louisville plant was converted to C-46 Commando production, delivering 438 Commandos to supplement the...
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a loaded C-109 inevitably resulted in an explosion and crew fatalities, earning it the nickname "C-One-Oh-Boom". The Curtiss C-46 Commando began to fly...
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the Laotian Civil War. On 5 September 1963, he was a member of a Curtiss C-46 Commando air crew shot down near Ban Houei Sane, Laos. He was held in nine...
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Archived from the original on October 27, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2019. "Curtiss C-46". Delta Museum. Archived from the original on April 8, 2019. Retrieved...
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these aircraft in the past: 1 Beechcraft 1900C 3 Boeing 727-100F 4 Curtiss C-46 Commando 1 Douglas DC-4 5 Douglas DC-6B 2 Handley Page Herald 1 Piper PA-28...
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1949 and 1989, the squadron flew a variety of types such as the Curtiss C-46 Commando, Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star and McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom...
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The Curtiss XP-46 was a 1940s American prototype fighter aircraft. It was a development of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation in an effort to introduce the...
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rifle Curtiss C-46 Commando, an American transport aircraft Commando (aircraft), a very long range Consolidated Liberator II aircraft Commando (pigeon)...
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Puerto Plata, La Romana and Santiago de los Caballeros, acquiring Curtiss C-46 Commando and Aviation Traders Carvair airplanes. In 1960, the airline was...
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14, 1972 as AeroNorte Ltda. and commenced operations using the Curtiss C-46 Commando. In 1975, it started regional cargo services and bought 2 Douglas...
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707-331C 6 Curtiss-Wright C-46A Commando 4 Douglas DC-6A/B 2 Douglas DC-8-20 Davis John M, Martin Harold G, and Whittle John A. The Curtiss C-46 Commando 1978...
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upward-hinged nose section. Douglas C-47 Skytrains were usually used as tow aircraft. A few Curtiss C-46 Commando tugs were used during and after the...
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bringing a boom to Reeve Aleutian. In 1957, an S-43 was traded in, two Curtiss C-46 Commandos were purchased from Cordova Airlines and Grumman G-21 Goose was...
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Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando)
history and is currently the sixth-worst involving a Curtiss C-46 Commando. The Curtiss C-46 Commando, registration LV-GED, took off from Buenos Aires at...
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The wreckage of a Curtiss C-46 Commando that crashed in shallow water at Norman's Cay in November 1980 (1999)...
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Consolidated B-24 Liberator, an American long-range heavy bomber Curtiss C-46 Commando, a twin-engine pressurized high-altitude transport aircraft Heinkel...
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engine failure, all 5 occupants were killed. On August 4, 1952, a Curtiss C-46 Commando on a ferry flight crashed on approach to MIA because of the failure...
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aircraft: The airline also operated: Douglas DC-2 Douglas DC-6 Curtiss C-46 Commando de Havilland Canada DHC-7 Dash 7 Sahsa Airlines was involved in...
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Intercontinental de Aviacion in 1982. Only one Vickers Viscount and the Curtiss C-46 Commando left the company. A McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 and another Vickers...
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1949 53 0 28 1949 Strato-Freight Curtiss C-46A crash Atlantic Ocean, near San Juan Puerto Rico Curtiss C-46 Commando Installation of incorrect spark plugs...
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of the Curtiss C-46 Commando, the company's foray into civil and military transport markets. He also supervised the development of the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver...
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