AIR AMERICA: CURTISS C-46s - The University of Texas at Dallas

UTD/Hickler/B1F1); in use out of Saigon at least between 15 July 68 and 29 April 69
(Crew member duty report of H. F. Miller, in: UTD/Miller/B4F6); an Army tractor
trailer ran into the wing tip in South Vietnam on 6 December 70, causing minor
damage to the left wing; repaired and returned to service on 9 December 70 (Minutes
ExCom-AACL/AAM of 8 December 70 in: UTD/CIA/B8F4); in use out of Saigon at
least between 20 April 71 and 24 July 71 (Saigon daily flight schedules, in:
UTD/Hickler/B8F1); assigned to contract AID/VN-100 for use out of Saigon 1-31
July 71 (F.O.C. of 1 July 71 and 15 July 71, in: UTD/Hickler/B8F7B); still assigned
to contract AID/VN-100 for use out of Saigon 1 November-31 December 73 (F.O.C.
of 1 November 73 and 1 December 73, in: UTD/Hickler/B8F7C); assigned to contract
AID SA-C-1029 for use out of Saigon 1 April-31 May 74 (F.O.C. of 1 April 74 and 1
May 74, in: UTD/Hickler/B8F7C); seen at Bangkok on 5 April 73 (Aviation Letter 78,
May 73, p.2); at Hong Kong in 1975.
Fate: was at Tainan between 15 June 75 and 9 September 75; ferried to Roswell NM
via Adak, AK (photo in: UTD/Ann Stuart [Sm.Coll.5]) between 9 and 26 September
75; arrived at Roswell on 26 September 75 (Air America, owned aircraft as of 30
September 75, in: UTD/CIA/B56F1); was to be sold to Omni Aircraft Sales,
Washington DC, at $ 25,000 according to the Sales Agreement of 13 November 75
(Summary of aircraft sales, in: UTD/CIA/B40F6); sold to Omni Aircraft Sales,
Washington, DC, on 2 February 76 (Properties list dated 17 February 76, in:
UTD/CIA/B18F9); deregistration requested on 6 February 76 (Letter by Clyde S.
Carter dated 6 February 76 in: UTD/CIA/B16F9); seized by the Taylor County (FL)
Sheriff at Perry Filed, FL, in June 1977, after having flown in marijuana (e-mail dated
15 November 2004 sent by Mark Sublette to Dr. Erik Carlson, who forwarded it to the
author); sold to A.D. Mallard, Shelley, ID, on 3 February 78; sold to Omni Transport,
Fort Lauderdale, on 16 May 78; left Miami on 18 April 79 to the Fuerza Aérea
Colombiana; serialled as FAC 931; leased to DAINCO Colombia / Programa Coinco,
as HK-3079X in 1984; sold to Trans Oriente Colombia, Villavicencio, in March 94;
sold to DAINCO Colombia / Programa Coinco, as HK-3079G in July 94; crashed into
a hillside near Villavicencio, Colombia, on 9 May 95; US reg canx on 7 November 97
as scrapped.