Derelict C-46s in Haiti

“First C-46 I saw was a Fred Olsen one as it touched down at Southend 40 plus years ago. A great looking aeroplane full of character..”

Yes Fred Olsen..painted in that ‘orrible muddy yellow colour..

but on a typically very still early ’60s summers night, clearly audible for up to 15 minutes after that seemingly marginal and extremely noisey departure out of southend..even my old man with a command on DC6’s then, used to wait back a bit to watch ’em out of there.. VERY very special the C-46 was…

OK, here are two more C-46s…

N800FA at Geneseo NY (since moved to the Glenn Curtiss Museum at Hammondsport via Wings of Eagles at Elmira…for a non-flyer she gets around!)

C-FAVO at Penhold (Red Deer) Alberta in 1995.

S.

Here’s the example at the Dos Santos museum in Rio – another excellent museum.

Flankerman–

Wow. Thanks for posting those…best photo sequence I have seen from the legendary Chinese air-museum-in-the-mountain.

Several of the earlier types look like replicas, and not frightfully faithful ones at that. I genuinely wonder whether they may have based that Tomahawk on the ones in the John Wayne flick “Flying Tigers”…which themselves were very dodgy-looking mockups (excepting a few actual P-40s shown taking off).

Looking at the putative Mossie, I’m thinking the core structure of the port wing is genuine and so is the tailwheel assembly. Everything else looks like an airfield decoy! More has been done with less in the past, though, and if anyone could craft a genuinely faithful static Mossie out of those meagre relics, surely the Chinese could.

And I absolutely love the bits of “Engrish” (as those hilariously loose bits of translation get called…there’s a whole website dedicated to them) on those signs at the Great Wall. Brilliant…

S.

I fully agree Europe needs a C-46, cool plane! They were used to cross the Rhine, I believe?

Exactly… March 45, Wesel… where I`m living:

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=517

One of them crashed less than 500 feet from my house.

Thank you for the images!

I never realised so many aircraft are actually inside. Nice place.

Mosquito??? Is it? if so only just.

I fully agree Europe needs a C-46, cool plane! They were used to cross the Rhine, I believe?

Have a look at the flight manual..
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http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F11327612%2FC46-Manual&ei=5Uo8Te22OoaxhQefpZymCg&usg=AFQjCNFO_ClqDfsfxy-dqPFro3YaJHfBsQ

I thought the C46 main problem was directional control during take off/landing…

They carried much heavier loads than a C47 and I guess at very high AUW then single engine flying might get a little sweaty 🙂

but I wouldnt like to argue about it with anybody 🙂

First C-46 I saw was a Fred Olsen one as it touched down at Southend 40 plus years ago. A great looking aeroplane full of character but unfortunately I believe that you are in serious trouble if one engine gives up the ghost. I think I am right in saying that the Dak is less of a handful on one engine.
Thanks for posting the link to the museum pictures. It looks an amazing place with very well maintained exhibits.

Why is it too sensitive to post here? Because it’s another aeroplane magazine? Come on, 🙁

The C46 has a lot of character,

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Cees

Thank you Flankerman,a wonderful link nice to see a Trident preserved as well.

There’s a couple at the PLAAF Museum at Xiaotangshan…..

I photographed them last November…..

Ken