[elcid1970]

Fascinating about the C-46’s still operating. The ghosts of many other C-46’s kept them flying.

I remember near Harrisburg PA around 1964 seeing where someone had made a home out of a C-46 fuselage, set into a hillside on a cinder block foundation. As a kid I thought that was kind of neat.

There was a huge story about surplus disposal after WWII in Smithsonian. Military aircraft were sold not individually, but by entire airfields full.

The aircrews who flew them and got mustered out by the thousands felt pretty surplus, too.

[mad_as_he$$]

At the end of WW2 they were selling P-51’s with a full load of gas for $900. I have a picture of Corsairs by the hundreds standing on their propellers waiting to be scrapped. Makes me sick.