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    Airframe Family: Curtiss C-46 Commando
    Latest Model:C-46D Commando
    Last Military Serial:44-77589 USAAF
    Construction Number:32985
    Last Civil Registration:RP-C1462
    Compressed ID:Curtiss C-46D sn 44-77589 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:A. S. Seletar

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a C-46D.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-77589.

    15 May 1962

    To Southern Air Transport Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N9458Z (C-46D, 32985).

    1965

    To Air America keeping c/r N9458Z.

    1971


    Photographer: Kevin Haigh
    Notes: At Bangkok

    20 August 1975

    Civil registration, N9458Z, cancelled.

    21 August 1975

    To Oasis with new c/r RP-C1462.

    September 1975


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Oasis Airs second C-46D was being prepared to enter service and was awaiting its Filipino registration to be allocated. It was previously Air Americas N9458Z which operated in the SE Asian war zones for many years,

    By June 1980

    Leased to Kris Air.

    July 1980


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Curtiss C-46D Commando RP-C1462 was being leased by Kris Air, an air freight operator which started in August 1977, founded by Australians with backing from Chinese businessmen in Singapore. Kris Air took over the operations of Tri-9 Corp, a US-backed Seletar company whose Convair propliner fleet had been active in the SE Asian war zones.RP-C1462 was leased from OASIS in Manila, flown by its Filipino crews who carried oil drilling equipment and refugee humanitarian relief supplies from Singapore throughout SE Asia and as far afield as India.

    1981

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Manila.

    1989

    To A. S. Seletar.
    And scrapped.
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