Curtiss C-46 Commando Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids C-46 Commando

A wartime photograph of a US Army Air Forces (USAAF) C-46 Commando
Role	Military transport aircraft
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Curtiss-Wright
First flight	26 March 1940
Introduction	1941
Status	Active in limited civilian use
Primary users	United States Army Air Forces United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Navy
Produced	1940–1945
Number built	3,181

The Curtiss C-46 Commando is an American cargo aircraft. It was mainly used by US Army Air Force and US Navy for the World War II and after the Korean War. It was called R5C-1 by US Navy. After 1945 many were sold to airlines across the world. It's often confused with the Douglas C-47 Skytrain.

Images for kids

A US C-46 aircraft conducting an aerial evacuation of wounded American troops from Manila, the capital of the Philippines, shortly after US forces retook the city after intense fighting with the Japanese.
"St. Louis", the BOAC CW-20A at Gibraltar, 1941–42. Was previously C-55 with Curtiss and USAAC, after conversion from twin-tail CW-20T
C-46F "China Doll", Camarillo Airport Museum
The XC-113
Curtiss C-46R/Super 46C post-war modified C-46D of LANSA Honduras in 1978
Curtiss C-46 "Commando" in flight
C-46 from Republic of China Air Force, at the RoCAF Museum, Taiwan
People's Liberation Army Air Force C-46 at Beijing Civil Aviation Museum
C-46A 2 of the Japan Air Self-Defence Force
"Working office" of a C-46, c. 2006, over northern Manitoba
An APU of "China Doll"
Buffalo Airways C-46 in northern Canada, c. 2005
Lamb Air C-46
C-46 C-GIBX from First Nations Transportation, c. 2006
An Aeropesca Colombia C-46 at Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport, Belize
C-46A of Caraibische Lucht Transport (Curaçao) in 1970
C-46D of Lufthansa/Capitol Air at Düsseldorf Airport in 1964
3-view line drawing of the Curtiss R5C-1 Commando