Ex USAAF 44-77889 and JASDF 51-1122. Sold to Cliff Everts in 1978 and stored at Fairbanks for nearly twenty years before being restored to fly again in 1998. Aptly named 'Maid in Japan' the aircraft was badly damaged in an accident in 2002 but was repaired and is still flying in for Everts Air Cargo in February 2022.

Everts' only cargo C-46, with the other four set up to haul fuel.

It was still active in Mar 2018.

First upload of the "Maid In Japan" with Air Cargo Express titles.

Everts C-46 landing at Anchorage

"Maid in Japan" was parked at Nenana (65 km southwest), but had to be evacuated from there because the airfield was threatened by the then rapidly advancing Parks Highway Fire. It is seen here taxiing in at Fairbanks after completing the short hop to safety from Nenana.

At Nenana Airport at 22:45, "Maid in Japan" is watching the horror of the raging Parks Highway Fire that approaches it from the south. The fire started only 7 hours earlier and at the moment of the photo it is still about 16 km (10 miles) away. But two days later it would burn the trees in the background, and the airport and part of the city needed to be evacuated. The fire's massive smoke plumes are still lit by the setting sun.

Still wears the last two digits of its old Japanese serial 51-1122 on the nose. Was later made airworthy again and became Everts Air Cargo's aptly-named "Maid in Japan".

Taxiing in for parking at dusk.

Very happy to catch this old classic taxiing past and heading to Runway 32 for departure.

Ex-Japanese Air Self Defense Force C-46D "Maid In Japan"