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.

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

Headed by Bolivian aviation legend Rolando Canedo, Lineas Aereas Canedo restored this C-46 to an immaculate standard. Fitted out in passenger configuration with 32 hand stitched leather seats, the company planned to fly the aircraft alongside their equally immaculate C-117D on charters in Bolivia. Unfortunately circumstances brought about largely by a downturn in the Bolivian economy meant the aircraft was seldom flown. Sadly, Rolando passed away in 2019 but both the C-46 and C-117 survive at Cochabamba.