HP-407   Curtiss C-46                                                            (c/n 249)

                              

                                  This C-46A was civilianized by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1946 and sold to
                                  Linea Aérea Transatlantica Colombia, as C-65.   It was transferred by LATC to Columbia
                                  one year later becoming HK-65.  Then to RANSA as YV-C-ARE in November 1949.
                                  It was sold to Aerovias Panama (APSA)  in March 1966 as HP-407.          The Bill Hill
                                 collection photo above was probably taken in Miami.  In 1968 it went to Bolivia, initially
                                 as CP-833 for SANIA and later as CP-914 for  Servicios Aéreos Bolivianos.  As such it
                                 crashed on 15 July 1970 at Espiritu, Bolivia.