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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77632, whose f<strong>at</strong>e is completely unknown); according to the photo <strong>of</strong> the mission<br />
board <strong>of</strong> VIAT, probably taken by February 1962 and kindly sent to the author on 13<br />
Nov. 2004 by Clarence Fu, XV-NII was ex B-1517 and ex 44-78221; this would make<br />
it msn 33617, which was condemned on 18 August 45 and then salvaged (Davis /<br />
Martin / Whittle, Curtiss C-46 Commando, p.104); probably, the aircraft was rebuilt<br />
from parts <strong>of</strong> both aircraft; Air America‟s contract 61-119 with VIAT was for calltype<br />
personnel services in South East Asia including Air America‟s flight, ground,<br />
supply and maintenance personnel, as may be called by VIAT (List <strong>of</strong> Air America‟s<br />
contracts, Memorandum <strong>of</strong> 27 July 62, in: UTD/Fink/B2F16); this aircraft was <strong>at</strong><br />
Saigon on 8 July 63, all silver, bearing no titles (UTD/Kirkp<strong>at</strong>rick, slide A 5420,<br />
given in the index as “VIAT C-46”).<br />
F<strong>at</strong>e: evidently returned to China Airlines as B-1517, probably in 1963 or 1964, and<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficially cancelled from the civil aircraft register <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> China only in<br />
1970 (e-mail d<strong>at</strong>ed 26 Nov. 2004, kindly sent to the author by Mr. Billy K. C. Chang,<br />
Director General <strong>of</strong> the CAA, Republic <strong>of</strong> China).
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