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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The 1945 Beiping Curtiss C-46 Commando crash occurred on October 12, 1945, when a USAAF Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft crashed near Nanyuan Airport in...

for large-scale C-76 production were rejected. The Louisville plant was converted to C-46 Commando production, delivering 438 Commandos to supplement the...

Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigated the accident and concluded that the Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft had been overloaded by 2,000 lb (910 kg) above its maximum...

7 crew and 51 passengers on board the airliner died. TI-1022, a Curtiss C-46 Commando of Aerolineas Nacionales, left San Jose, Costa Rica, at 06:21 on...

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...

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 for...

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...

Puerto Plata, La Romana and Santiago de los Caballeros, acquiring Curtiss C-46 Commando and Aviation Traders Carvair airplanes. In 1960, the airline was...

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...

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...

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...

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...

rifle Curtiss C-46 Commando, an American transport aircraft Commando (aircraft), a very long range Consolidated Liberator II aircraft Commando (pigeon)...

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...

Consolidated B-24 Liberator, an American long-range heavy bomber Curtiss C-46 Commando, a twin-engine pressurized high-altitude transport aircraft Heinkel...

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...

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...

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...

as TWA Flight 529. On December 16, 1956, a Zantop Air Transport Curtiss C-46 Commando made a straight-in visual flight rules (VFR) approach to LGB when...

Verner was a veteran military pilot who had flown heavily loaded Curtiss C-46 Commando cargo planes over The Hump between India and China. Todd paid for...

Superfortress Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter Douglas C-124 Globemaster II Douglas F3D Skyknight Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer Curtiss C-46 Commando Douglas A-1 Skyraider...

The wreckage of a Curtiss C-46 Commando that crashed in shallow water at Norman's Cay in November 1980 (1999)...

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...