First registered in Colombia as HK1856 in 1976 with Villavicencio based Lineas Aereas La Urraca. Bought by Aeronorte in 1980 and impounded by the authorities in 1986. Reactivated by Aeronorte in 1991 and later flew for a short while with Lineas Aereas Suramericanas titles before being sold to Transoceanica de Aviacion in December 1993. Written off in a landing accident at Puerto Inirida in January 1994.

May/45: TOS USAAF with s/n 43-47350. 6 Jun 45: Transferred to the Chinese Nationalist government. November/49: Purchased by Gen. Claire L. Chennault and Whiting Willauer; registered N8364C. December/49: Activated with Civil Air Transport (Nationalist Chinese airline). January/53: Civil Air Transport Southeast Asia; operated by the CIA. July/55: L.B. Smith Aircraft Corporation with c/r N1382N. October/55: Zantop Air Transport, Detroit Metro Airport. April/60: Re-registered as N611Z. March/68: Aviation Associates, GA. August/68: RALCO, Inc. October/73: Roger Wilcox. November/75 to October/89: Six owners. 2 October 89: National Naval Aviation Museum.

operated by Servicios Aereos Bolivianos (photographer not known)

ex CORAL - owned by Rolando Medina. Crashed 2 months later 3 kilometers east of Villavicencio while trying to return when no.2 engine caught fire. Extinguisher bottles were empty & crew lost control (photographer not known)

Thirty-six C-46Ds were purchased from USA and 12 from the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) that included the C-46A and C-46D. All C-46As were converted to C-46D standard. They started operating in 1955 from Tachikawa and by the Miho Detachment, which evolved into the Air Transport Wing comprising of the 401st and 402nd Sqn. Three at Iruma were used for ECM. This ex-ROCAF aircraft at JASDF Hamamatsu Kohokan was flown by the Flight Check Group for navaid calibration till phased out on 11 March 1978.

This C-46A was originally built as USAAF C-46A 43-47330. It was transferred to the JASDF on 22 December 1959 and was withdrawn from use on 25 August 1976.

Firing up and raring to go !! A puff of smoke from the exhausts heralds imminent departure. About to taxi out from its parking spot in the area behind Buffalo's hangar at Yellowknife Airport. In September 2015, suffered engine failure en route to Norman Wells. Unable to maintain altitude, a forced landing had to be made - intentionally wheels up - on the short gravel airstrip at Déline in very poor weather conditions. The aircraft considerably overran the runway. The crew evacuated safely, but the aircraft was written off.

Ex USAAF 44-77898, N3986C, HK-78, N3958A, SE-CFH, PP-BUB, CP-1655

Approaching over a fortified beach on Kinmen (Quemoy). Shelling of this island by PRC artillery on the mainland started on 23 August 1958. According to online sources the island's old airfield on the west side closed that day, to be replaced by the current Shangyi airport (RCBS) at an unspecified date. Details about the airframe unknown - it seems to wear a FY 42 serial with six sequential digits but it cannot be deciphered. Photo by: John Dominis / Life

previous reg HI-209 still shown under the wing - operated by Aerolineas ARGO SA. Photographer unknown

This C-46 is now at Chino, CA as N74173.

With an orange Buffalo logo on its fin, catching the early morning sun outside the Buffalo Airways hangar at Yellowknife Airport. Later sustained substantial damage , in November 2012, due to a left main gear collapse on landing at Yellowknife. Then in September 2015 suffered engine failure some way short of its flight destination, Norman Wells. Unable to maintain altitude, a forced belly landing had to be made on the gravel airstrip at Déline in very poor weather conditions. The aircraft considerably overran the runway. The crew evacuated safely. The aircraft was a write-off.

With an orange Buffalo logo on the fin, sitting outside the Yellowknife base of Buffalo Airways. Later sustained substantial damage, in November 2012, due to a left main gear collapse on landing at Yellowknife. Then in September 2015 suffered engine failure some way short of its flight destination, Norman Wells. Unable to maintain altitude, a forced belly landing had to be made on the gravel airstrip at Déline, in very poor weather conditions. The aircraft considerably overran the runway. The crew evacuated safely, but the aircraft was written off.

now with the Yanks Air Museum at Chino, CA - photographer unknown

Imported into Canada in 1987 as C-GTXW for Air Manitoba after post-military registration in Venezuela and Dominican Rep. Here it has just returned from time in Kenya on famine relief from 1994 on. After restoration as C-GTXW it was wrecked while with Buffalo Airways by being deliberately landed wheels-up at Déline/NT on 25 September 2015. (Bar River is the last place anyone would expect to find a Kenyan registered C-46.)

Transferred to Chinese Air Force in 1946. Wfu in 1948. From friend's family collection.

This aircraft was written off when it ditched in the sea off Opa Locka on 22nd July 1978 after a double engine failure during a training flight.

K25 slide scan. Built 1945 as msn 22487 44-78664 for USAAF. Operated by Pan American on lease as N74173 from 1948 to 1953. From 1954 Slick, Aaxico, Capitol, Zantop, Ralco. Rich International 1970. Rebuilt in 1975 as composite aircraft incorporating msn 289 and msn 22487 taking on identity of the former. Active with Rich until 1983, thereafter stored Miami. Southwest Aviation 1989, ferried to las Cruces, NM and stored. Acquired by Yanks Air Museum 2000 and flown to Chino, CA. Still unrestored in faded Rich colours 2018.