"N9893Z Curtiss C-46D Commando Lufthansa Cargo(Capitol Aws) STR 30MAR66
<p>Operated for Lufthansa Cargo by Capitol Airways. Taken at Stuttgart (STR)
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This aircraft was delivered new to the US Army Air Force in Dec-44 serialled 44-77574. The USAAF was renamed the US Air Force in Sep-47. It served with the USAF until it was ‘demobbed’ and sold to Capitol Airways as N9893Z in Mar-61. It was wet leased to Lufthansa Cargo in Sep-65, returning to Capitol in Jul-69. It was sold to Shamrock Airlines in 1973 and sold to Caribbean Air Services in 1976. From there it became HK-2020 with La Urraca in Jan-78. It was sold to Aerosucre Colombia in 1979 and sold again to Selva Colombia in 1992. I can find no further information and by 1992 the aircraft was almost 50 years old so I assume it was retired and broken up at Selva’s base at Villavicencio."
Ken Fielding
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