Alaska Airlines  Curtiss C-46  N1242N                               (c/n 22406)

                                     

                                    In 1949-50 Alaska Airlines leased a modest fleet of C-46s from the US military for freight
                                    purposes.   N1242N was one of them.     They didn't last long with Alaska, and the above
                                    machine went to Resort Airlines in 1952.  It crashed on approach to Chattanooga Airport,
                                   Tenn on 22 January 1955.    I gleaned the shot above from a post card acquired from the
                                   old Airport Hobby Shop close to London Airport, back in the 1970s.