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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:C-46R Super 46C
    Last Military Serial:42-107362 USAAF
    Construction Number:27049
    Last Civil Registration:N335CA
    Latest Owner or Location:Max E. Moore, Singapore 1

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a C-46R.
    Curtiss Wright C-46R 27049

    2 June 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-107362.

    July 1946

    Withdrawn from use.

    1955

    To Sanday and Company Inc with c/r N9887F.

    Circa 1 November 1956

    Certificate of airworthiness for N9887F (C-46, 27049) issued.

    1 November 1956

    To Boreas Corp, New York, NY.

    Converted to a C-46R.

    18 November 1957

    To Fred Olsens Flyselskap with c/r LN-FOP.

    26 March 1958

    Civil registration, N9887F, cancelled.
    Exported to Norway.

    29 June 1971

    To Continental Air Services with c/r XW-PHL.

    9 July 1974

    To Continental Air Services with c/r N335CA.

    10 July 1974

    Certificate of airworthiness for N335CA (C-46R, 27049) issued.

    16 February 1976

    To Amco Air International.

    25 January 1977

    To Tri-9 Singapore.
    Markings added: Akiko
    Operated by Kris Air.

    21 February 1979

    To Max E. Moore, Singapore 1.

    1980

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    And stored at Selestar, Singapore.

    21 July 1980


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: C-46 Commando N335CA in the same brown and yellow paint scheme, parked on the Kris Air ramp at Singapore Selestar

    1 January 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for N335CA (C-46R, 27049) issued.

    2 April 2015

    Civil registration, N335CA, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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