LV-FTX, Curtiss C-46 Super, c/n 26683-CU323

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LV-FTX, Curtiss C-46 Super, c/n 26683-CU323
41-24762 - USAAF (USA)
 - Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.  (as C-46A-30-CU Commando) 11.11.43
Bu.No.39516 - US MARINE CORPS (as R5C-1) 06.12.1943
 - Marine Transport Squadron Nine Hundred Fifty Two (VMR-952) and based on Emirau Island, Bismarck Archipelago. 08.1944
 - VMR-952 joins the Transport Air Group, based in Guam, Mariana Islands, where it was on VJ Day. 12.1944
 - Participated with VMR-952 in the battle of Iwo Jima. 02.1945
 - Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAG-35. 05.1945
 - NAS San Diego, CA.  02.1946
 - MAG-35 Service Squadron (Servron-35). 03.1946
 - Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific based at MCAS Ewa, HI. 06.1946
 - Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific based in Guam, Mariana Islands.  02.1947
 - Homeland Defense Network (HDN), MAW-1. 06.1947
 - VMR-153, based at MCAS Tsingtao, Shandong, China. 08.1947
N4090A - MARCO INDUSTRIES INC. (USA)
 - L.B. Smith Aircraft Co.  29.07.1958
 - converted to Model CW-20T Super 46C.
 - N reg. cancelled as exported to ARGENTINA 06.01.1959 

LV-PLX, pasavante 12.1958
LV-FTX, TSA - Transcontinental SA 13.01.59
 - Austral - Compañía Argentina de Transportes Aéreos SACI lsd 22.12.61
TAM-60 - TAM - Transporte Aéreo Militar (BOLIVIA) 1964
W/O - Accidentado en La Paz, Bolivia, 17.02.71 - en vuelo a San Borja colisiona contra el terreno en la montaña Cunatincuta, 13 minutos después del despegue. Pierden la vida ocho pasajeros y cuatro tripulantes, sin sobrevivientes.