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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:Super 46C
    Last Military Serial:44-78646 USAAF
    Construction Number:22469
    Last Civil Registration:N1871C
    Compressed ID:Smith Super 46C sn 44-78646 USAAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aircraft Modifications Inc, Miami, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a C-46F.

    July 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-78646.

    1 December 1955

    To United States Justice Department with new c/r N1871C.

    29 December 1966

    To Channel Air Lift keeping c/r N1871C.

    February 1967


    Photographer: Peter B Lewis
    Notes: At McClellan AFB

    1 May 1972

    To William Bohkle keeping c/r N1871C.

    1 May 1974

    To Caribbean Air Services (Casair) keeping c/r N1871C.

    Converted to a Super 46C by Smith.

    4 June 1979


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At San Juan

    September 1982

    To Southern Air Transport keeping c/r N1871C.

    June 1984

    To Ilford Riveton Airways with new c/r C-GRLQ.

    1985


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: Curtiss C-46C Commando - CASAIR (Caribbean Air Service) leased to Ilford Riverton Airways at Winnipeg International Airport (YWG) in June 1985 Ilford Riverton leased this Curtiss from Casair during 1984 to operate cargo flights in the Canadian north

    14 January 1985

    To Aircraft Modifications Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N1871C.

    20 May 1985

    Certificate of airworthiness for N1871C (C-46F, 22469) issued.

    After June 1985

    The aircraft landed in Mexico in 1985 with a load of contraband and was seized by the Mexican authorities and disassembled so that the plane could not be flown again.

    August 2003

    Observed Aug 2003 as N1871C on the ground in Mexico, still in livery of Caribbean Air, abandoned and disassembled.

    17 December 2014

    Civil registration, N1871C, cancelled.
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     Turbo Prop Airlines Production List by J. Roach and A.B. Eastwood
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Terry Fletcher
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