AIR AMERICA: CURTISS C-46s - The University of Texas at Dallas
AIR AMERICA: CURTISS C-46s - The University of Texas at Dallas
AIR AMERICA: CURTISS C-46s - The University of Texas at Dallas
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Curtiss C-46D B-858 22228 (31 Mar. 59) CAT B-858; previously<br />
USAF 44-78405, then<br />
“405”, XT-T506, XT-806,<br />
then N8408C, XT-858<br />
Service history: acquired by CAT in “44/3”, th<strong>at</strong> is in March 55 according to Air<br />
Asia‟s St<strong>at</strong>ement <strong>of</strong> Property <strong>of</strong> 31 March 65 (in: UTD/CIA/B26F5); plush aircraft<br />
being assigned to the Booklift contract out <strong>of</strong> Tachikawa in September 1960 (Letter<br />
d<strong>at</strong>ed 16 September 60, sent by Robert Rousselot, Vice-President Oper<strong>at</strong>ions, to<br />
George Doole, Managing Director, <strong>at</strong> UTD/Bisson/B5 micr<strong>of</strong>ilm reel no. 4); appeared<br />
in Gu<strong>at</strong>emala only once (Hagedorn, Central American and Caribbean air forces,<br />
p.148, where a photo can be found on p. 143); photo taken <strong>at</strong> Kusan, Korea (K-08) in<br />
? by Robert Mikesh in: Love, Wings <strong>of</strong> Air America, p. 18; oper<strong>at</strong>ed out <strong>of</strong> Bangkok<br />
into Laos on 29 May 61 (Vientiane Daily Flight Oper<strong>at</strong>ions Log <strong>of</strong> 29 May 61, in:<br />
UTD/Lewis/B2F6); was being assigned to the Booklift contract in March 63<br />
(Memorandum no. CFO-63-127-A/6 d<strong>at</strong>ed 3 April 63, in: UTD/Bisson/B5, micr<strong>of</strong>ilm<br />
reel no. 4); was to be sold in April 63 to Los Hermanos Sebastian y Gómez SA,<br />
Panama (Minutes ExCom-AACL <strong>of</strong> 9 April 63, in: UTD/CIA/B7F2); sold in July 63<br />
(Minutes ExCom-AACL/AAM <strong>of</strong> 27 August 63, in: UTD/CIA/B7F2); but current in<br />
September 63 (Aircraft list <strong>of</strong> June 62, corrected to Sept. 1963, in:<br />
UTD/Kirkp<strong>at</strong>rick/B1F1); assigned to contract AF62(562)-656 for use out <strong>of</strong><br />
Tachikawa on Booklift flights in February 64 and in April 64 (AAM aircraft<br />
availability <strong>of</strong> 1 February 64, in the possession <strong>of</strong> Ward Reimer who kindly faxed it to<br />
the author on 17 February 2004; AAM Aircraft availability <strong>of</strong> 1 April 64, in:<br />
UTD/Kirkp<strong>at</strong>rick/B8F4); still in July 64 (Aircraft st<strong>at</strong>us as <strong>of</strong> 7 July 64, in:<br />
UTD/Kirkp<strong>at</strong>rick/B1F1); used as B-858 out <strong>of</strong> Saigon as a spare aircraft for daily<br />
calls in November 65 (Aircraft st<strong>at</strong>us as <strong>of</strong> 1 Nov.<br />
Air America C-46 B-858 <strong>at</strong> Saigon airport in the mid-sixties<br />
(with kind permission from Ward S. Reimer)<br />
65, in: UTD/Kirkp<strong>at</strong>rick/B1F1), in April 66 (Aircraft st<strong>at</strong>us as <strong>of</strong> 8 April 66, in:<br />
UTD/Kirkp<strong>at</strong>rick/B1F1), and in May 66 (Aircraft st<strong>at</strong>us as <strong>of</strong> 5 May 66, in:<br />
UTD/Hickler/B1F2); assigned to contract AF49(604)-4395 from ? to 26 September 67<br />
(Aircraft st<strong>at</strong>us as <strong>of</strong> 1 May 68, in: UTD/Herd/B2); on 28 May 66, the tail wheel<br />
collapsed, when B-858 landed <strong>at</strong> Saigon (V-01), SVN; there was only minor skin<br />
damage, which was quickly repaired (XOXO <strong>of</strong> 28 May 66, in:<br />
UTD/Hickler/B26F16); on 13 January 67, a passenger walked into the prop, when B-<br />
858 was <strong>at</strong> Saigon (V-01), and was taken to hospital (XOXO <strong>of</strong> 13 Jan. 67, in:
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