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Broken Nose Commandos

Posted by Joe Scheil on Tue Nov 05, 2002 03:09:14 PM

In reply top Re: Mystery C-46F posted by Ron Henry on Mon Nov 04, 2002 12:58:39 PM

Isn't the F the low production model with the conventional
cockpit profile? It's so untypical of Commandos that the
NASM really needs to think again.

No the C-46E is the low production model, and would have been a neat coup for someone. Unfortunatly the C-46E is extinct. There were 3,180 C-46 airframes produced, and 17 were E models. There were 550 contracted for, ser. 43-47403 to 47592 but most were cancelled at the end of the war. They were not used by the military and the E was only used as a civilian aircraft, postwar. They had a long and interesting service life and the last one survived until about 1972/73. All in all quite a handsome aircraft...

JOE




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