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Re: C-46 Registry
Posted by Mike Henniger on Fri Oct 03, 2003 10:00:25 AM
In reply top Re: C-46 Registry posted by Pat Carry on Fri Oct 03, 2003 09:06:53 AM
: Scott 44-78772 is now at the Curtiss Museum in Hammonds
: port,Ny. I do not know when the plane was transferred the
: re but perhaps someone here on the WIX could tell us that.
: see www.linkny.com/curtissmuseum
Here is what I have on this one...
Model: Curtiss-Wright C-46F-1-CU Commando
S/N: 44-78772 USAAF
C/N: 22595
Owner: Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum
History: C-46F-1-CU 44-78772 USAAF TOS (1943/9/26), storage (1946/2/12 to 1946/4), SOS (1950/1/10), N67996 (1951/4/26), N614Z (1960), CF-ZQX, N800FA, involved in an accident (1975/5/17), repaired, seized by US marshals for alleged gun smuggling (1988), to Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, loaned National Warplane Museum, loaned Curtiss Museum (circa 2001)
I photographed it at Geneseo in October 1995.
Regards,
Mike