4X-ALF     Curtiss C-46                                                          (c/n 332371)

                               

                                     Sister ship to -ALE, this ex C-46D-15-CU was civilly registered in the US briefly before going to
                                     LAPSA of Panama as RX-136.  It, too went to Cuba for overhaul before departing for Israel
                                     as 4X-AQE, and in May 1952 was reregistered 4X-ALF.  In 1955 it was sold to AAXICO as
                                     N2052A.   J.M.G. Gradidge saw it (above) at Heathrow whilst transitting across the Atlantic.
                                     It was stricken from the US Civil Register in October 1961.