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    The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized 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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    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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    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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    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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  • The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a manufacturer and services provider headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, with factories and operations in and...
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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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  • mountain located in Guna Yala, Panama. All 46 occupants were killed. On September 16, 1958, a Curtiss C-46 (registered HK-514) crashed shortly after takeoff...
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  • as Puerto Plata, La Romana and Santiago de los Caballeros, acquiring Curtiss C-46 Commando and Aviation Traders Carvair airplanes. In 1960, the airline...
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  • operated 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...
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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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  • service was inaugurated in 1950 and initially relied on military surplus Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft. The same aircraft type was used also for passengers...
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    might have been produced made more C-46 Commandoes for which the C-76 would have been a substitute. In 1941, Curtiss-Wright was contracted by the United...
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  • company officers are listed. The fleet is given as 3 Douglas DC-4, 25 Curtiss C-46, 5 Douglas DC-3, 2 Convair Catalina, with 2 Douglas DC-6B on order. In...
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  • killing all 18 on board. July 12 – Standard Air Lines Flight 897R, a Curtiss C-46, crashed at Chatsworth, California, due to pilot error, killing 35 of...
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  • (12 supplied by the United Kingdom) Curtiss C-46 Commando (1 supplied through lend-lease from the US) Douglas C-47 Skytrain (707 supplied through lend-lease...
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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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    landing of 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...
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  • Convair CV-340 Convair CV-440 9 1955 1968 1 1966 Crashed as flight LH005 Curtiss C-46 9 1964 1969 Douglas DC-3 3 1955 1960 1 Chartered by Martinair.[citation...
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    piston-engine transports—Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars, Douglas C-47 Skytrains and Curtiss C-46 Commandos—were no longer adequate. On 2 February 1951, the...
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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...
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  • during 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...
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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...
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    accident resulted in the deaths of all forty occupants of the aircraft. The Curtiss C-46 Commando was developed between 1937 and 1940 as a transport aircraft...
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  • June 7, 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...
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    1947: Douglas C-47 138 crashed in a mountainous area 119 mi south of Chongqing, killing all 19 on board. 28 January 1947: Curtiss C-46 XT-T45 (also registered...
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    in 1954. By 1956, Capitol was operating a fleet of more than twenty Curtiss C-46 transport planes, and had become a primary civilian carrier for the military's...
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    On October 29, 1960, a Curtiss C-46 passenger aircraft crashed shortly after take-off near Toledo, Ohio, U.S. The aircraft, a veteran of World War II,...
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    Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando)
    aviation 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...
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