Photo by Norbert Seifert.

(photographer not known)

Ca.late 1944 or early 1945: TOS USAAF. 18 September 1947: TOS USAF. Ca.late 1950s or early 1960s: 605th Air Commando Squadron/24th Composite Wing, Howard AFB, Panama. 17 May 68: Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for storage. 20 Mar 72: Flown to the Air Force Museum, where it was restored to represent a C-46 flying the "Hump" during 1944.

16 Nov '44: TOS USAAF. 1949: Air Force Reserve; used for crew proficiency training. 1950: Sent to Japan, and throughout the Korean War it operated out of Japan and Korea. 1955: TOS Japanese Air Self Defense Force with s/n 51-1121. By February/69 to after November/77: JASDF Flight Check Squadron. 1980: Alaska Rental and Sales with c/r N5579Z. During the next few years Alaska Rental and Sales swapped this plane for a C-118 through the Air Force Museum Loan Program, and on 11 October 1986 a dedication ceremony was held for this plane at the Air Command Park, Hurlburt Field, FL, where it remains on display.

Operated by Servicio Aéreo Beni (SABENI). W/o 11 October 1985 enroute from Beni province to La Paz (photographer not known)

Before with LACSA and SANSA. Sold to Aeronica as YN-BWY. Back to Trans Costa Rica as TI-TRA and finally exported to the Dominican Republic as HI-602CA for Antillas Air Cargo and later operated by Aerotim

Rolando Canedo founded Lineas Aereas Canedo to fly charters in Bolivia, with this C-46 and restored C-117D. It is seen here stored at Cochabamba in 2013, after plans seemed to have paused.

Delivered to the USAAF as 42-101231 in 1944. Sold as N5131B in 1956 and used by a number of operators. Used by Trans Continental Airlines from 1981 to 1982. To the Mexican Air Force as TEC-6047. I identified and photographed it on the dump at Mexico City in 1996. Preserved at the Explora Center, Leon, Mexico by 2001.

In the storage area at MASDC. Delivered to the USAAF in Nov 1944. Arrived in storage on 18 Apr 1958 with inventory number CN0082. Advertised for sale in Aug 1978.

This beautiful C-46D is the former USAAF 44-78541, which was delivered to the South Korean Air Force on 25 September 1968. It was on display at the War Memorial Museum as '8541'. Presumably, this still is the same plane here, but it now carries a somewhat different serial, although the last three are still the same.

Towards the end of the First Indochina War in 1954, the USAF sent a maintenance detachment to assist in the upkeep of French C-47s at Do Son, near Haiphong. After the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, four C-46s of the 315th Troop Carrier Wing, based in Japan, were sent to Do Son to carry out an evacuation if necessary. The small coastal airfield was a 'very poor strip' of steel planking. 44-78381 crashed on 14 June after its landing gear struck the seawall on approach. The aircraft was written off. The Americans quit Do Son on 29 June.

Returning to the area at the rear of Buffalo's Yellowknife base having completed a trip, with engines just winding down. Note the unusual lower case letters of the registration. In the 1960s, spent five years on lease from Capitol Air to Lufthansa, whose logo is still carried on its nose.

Ex N32229, exhibited at Joe Davies Heritage Airpark.

Even a new coat of paint couldn't turn the luck - the dream of passenger flights in a C-46 wouldn't become true for LAC

In one of the scrapyards at Davis Monthan.

C-46D N32229 now beautifully restored in its former markings.