N10427_1968ca_MUC_1290_WHC
Photo from the Wilhelm Hell collection, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
ca. late 1960s
N10427
Curtiss C-46A Commando
30532 / CU1068
Seaboard World Airlines
N10427 was a regular visitor to Riem throughout the 1960s, first with Seaboard & Western and later with Seaboard World. Photos exist of a damaged N10427 after suffering a landing incident at Riem on 8 May 1959. The aircraft was repaired but only put into service again as late as April 1964.
Information from modelairliner.com on Seaboard World Airlines and N10427:
Seaboard & Western Airlines began as just one of hundreds of non-scheduled airlines in the USA, during the immediate postwar era, but unlike almost all of them it focused on freight and successfully managed in 1955 to convince the all-powerful Civil Aeronautics Bureau (CAB) to assign it as the only approved US freight airline across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
By this time the core of the fleet was Lockheed Super Constellations, backed up by the remaining DC-4s, but they were too large to provide feed into the airline’s European cargo hubs and for that task Seaboard turned to the Curtiss C-46. The C-46 had overcome initial service issues (mid-air explosions!) to become an excellent cargo hauler offering twice the payload capacity of the competing DC-3.
Three Commandos had been operated by Seaboard briefly from 1949 until 1951 but it was a 1942 build frame that was leased in 1956 (and later purchased) from the supplemental airline AAXICO that would fulfil the European feeder task for over a decade. N10427 had originally been built for the USAAF as 42-101077 but transferred to the US Navy in September 1944 as 39573. She wasn’t acquired by AAXICO until 1956.
During her 14 years with Seaboard N10427 would see Seaboard & Western struggle financially and then be reborn in 1961 as Seaboard World, whilst the aircraft would be feeding the Connies at first, then Canadair CL-44s and finally Douglas DC-8 jets.
She was retired at Frankfurt in 1970 but sold a few years later and as with many C-46s found her way to South America. Sadly her new owners (Joanne Fashions) didn’t take very good care of her and still wearing N10427 she was was written off in a crash at Barrancabermeja, Colombia on February 21, 1973 after an engine failure.
Source: modelairliner.com/seaboard-world-c-46a/
Information from Propliners magazine on facebook:
Longest serving of all propliners in the Seaboard Western fleet was Curtiss C-46A Commando N10427 (c/n 30532) which served with the airline from August 1956 until her sale in Africa in December 1970. Much of her career with the airline was spent in Europe operating feeder services to London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam, with the feeder routes taking in many airports including Shannon, Prestwick, Paris, Brussels, Hamburg, Geneva, Zurich, Cologne and Dusseldorf.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N10427/772100
Colour shot of N10427 with Seaboard & Western at FRA in 1959:
www.planepictures.net/a/134/33/1419972750.jpg
Beautiful shot of N10427 with Seaboard World at FRA in December 1967:
www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/5915488581
N10427 with Seaboard World at Riem in October 1968:
www.dhc-2.com/N10427_C-46_Daniel_Ruhier_Munich_101968_RHC...
Scan from a duplicate slide (on Kodak Photo CD).
N10427_1968ca_MUC_1290_WHC
Photo from the Wilhelm Hell collection, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
ca. late 1960s
N10427
Curtiss C-46A Commando
30532 / CU1068
Seaboard World Airlines
N10427 was a regular visitor to Riem throughout the 1960s, first with Seaboard & Western and later with Seaboard World. Photos exist of a damaged N10427 after suffering a landing incident at Riem on 8 May 1959. The aircraft was repaired but only put into service again as late as April 1964.
Information from modelairliner.com on Seaboard World Airlines and N10427:
Seaboard & Western Airlines began as just one of hundreds of non-scheduled airlines in the USA, during the immediate postwar era, but unlike almost all of them it focused on freight and successfully managed in 1955 to convince the all-powerful Civil Aeronautics Bureau (CAB) to assign it as the only approved US freight airline across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
By this time the core of the fleet was Lockheed Super Constellations, backed up by the remaining DC-4s, but they were too large to provide feed into the airline’s European cargo hubs and for that task Seaboard turned to the Curtiss C-46. The C-46 had overcome initial service issues (mid-air explosions!) to become an excellent cargo hauler offering twice the payload capacity of the competing DC-3.
Three Commandos had been operated by Seaboard briefly from 1949 until 1951 but it was a 1942 build frame that was leased in 1956 (and later purchased) from the supplemental airline AAXICO that would fulfil the European feeder task for over a decade. N10427 had originally been built for the USAAF as 42-101077 but transferred to the US Navy in September 1944 as 39573. She wasn’t acquired by AAXICO until 1956.
During her 14 years with Seaboard N10427 would see Seaboard & Western struggle financially and then be reborn in 1961 as Seaboard World, whilst the aircraft would be feeding the Connies at first, then Canadair CL-44s and finally Douglas DC-8 jets.
She was retired at Frankfurt in 1970 but sold a few years later and as with many C-46s found her way to South America. Sadly her new owners (Joanne Fashions) didn’t take very good care of her and still wearing N10427 she was was written off in a crash at Barrancabermeja, Colombia on February 21, 1973 after an engine failure.
Source: modelairliner.com/seaboard-world-c-46a/
Information from Propliners magazine on facebook:
Longest serving of all propliners in the Seaboard Western fleet was Curtiss C-46A Commando N10427 (c/n 30532) which served with the airline from August 1956 until her sale in Africa in December 1970. Much of her career with the airline was spent in Europe operating feeder services to London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam, with the feeder routes taking in many airports including Shannon, Prestwick, Paris, Brussels, Hamburg, Geneva, Zurich, Cologne and Dusseldorf.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/N10427/772100
Colour shot of N10427 with Seaboard & Western at FRA in 1959:
www.planepictures.net/a/134/33/1419972750.jpg
Beautiful shot of N10427 with Seaboard World at FRA in December 1967:
www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/5915488581
N10427 with Seaboard World at Riem in October 1968:
www.dhc-2.com/N10427_C-46_Daniel_Ruhier_Munich_101968_RHC...
Scan from a duplicate slide (on Kodak Photo CD).