Warbird Information Exchange

Beautiful plane.
Here's some shots I took of one that use to reside in one of the junkyards on Valencia Rd. in Tucson (near the Pima Air Museum) in the mid-90's. Someone has since purchased it. Not sure what became of it...

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Mark:

Good Day!

Nice C-46 shots! The cockpit close-ups & interior details were superbtks

the only complaint i ever heard about the c-46 was the angle configuration of the cockpit windshield. while very streamlined it caused excessive light glare in most weather conditions for the flight crews.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

It ended up at Chino with Planes of Fame, s/n 44-77559. Here's a shot from 2008:

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

"It ended up at Chino with Planes of Fame, s/n 44-77559."

Are they restoring it? What's the plan...?

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C-46 s/n 101 was the prototype CW 20 airliner and as originally test flown by Eddie Allen, had twin small vertical fins and twice as many windows as the COMMANDO.(also different, double legged main gear). It went to the USAAF as 4121041 and was the one and only C-55, after evaluation it went back to CURTISS under it's civil registration of NX 19436 It was sold to British Overseas Airways Corp. as G-AGDI and named St. Louis. it was broken up 10/29/43 Good find Chris!

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