Post by volkerboehme on Aug 10, 2008 9:19:11 GMT -5
Realistic routes for the C46 Commando?
Anyone who is using my flight dynamics which replicate the FAA post war civil certification, (as flown by FT), to fly over the Hump or out of Bogota will need to use the US military and Colombian civil certification versions, with the two speed blower cogs in place, else the C-46A will crash on both overseas routes!
Here are many of the C-46 routes outside the continental USA from FSAviator:
Real Curtiss C-46 Commando routes
The C-46 is a very interesting aeroplane to operate over its real routes in real weather. However we must remember that at many of the places it served it could not depart with anything like a full load and that it almost always had a headwind during take off in real life. Then we must remember that some of the real destinations were compatible only with the highest performance versions of the C-46 whilst FSAviator’s flight dynamics are specific to the C-46A. Finally we must remember that many of the co-efficients of friction assigned to the different runways surfaces by Microsoft, third party scenery designers, and AFCAD providers may be bogus and excessive.
The following list of routes flown by the C-46 is by no means complete, but it should keep even the keenest FS9 C-46 operator busy for several years. Spelling mistakes likely in place names, at least as defined by Microsoft.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in Alaska or Canada
Alaska Airlines: C-46 Anchorage - Fairbanks and Juneau - Dawson City.
Canadian Pacific: C-46 from Vancouver to all airfields with long enough runways, including and within the Dawson City to Edmonton to Calgary arc.
Central Northern Airways: C-46 from Winnipeg to Lac du Bonnet and then the long haul north to Norway House at the northern end of Lake Winnipeg. Round west of Lake Manitoba via Dauphin to The Pas, Flyn Flon and on to Lynn Lake.
Cordova Airlines: C-46 non stop flights from Cordova to Anchorage, Homer, Dawson City (BC), Fairbanks, Yukatat, Chisana, Katalla, Ellamar and Prince William Sound. Anchorage flights go on to Seward or Valdez or Yakataga.
Eastern Provincial Airways: C-46 from hub at Gander flying St Johns - Gander - Deer Lake - Wabush (Labrador) or - Deer Lake - Twin Falls, plus charters to major Canadian airports.
Interior Airways: C-46 freight charters from hub at Fairbanks to anywhere relevant in Alaska, but mostly to Sagwon.
Maritime Central Airways: C-46 from hub at Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. Ch - Moncton then Fredericton or St John (NB). Ch - New Glasgow (NS) - Halifax (NS). Ch - the Magdelen Islands (Iles de Madelein). Charlottetown to Sept Isles (Quebec) or Charlottetown - Stephenville (NF) - Gander - St Johns. Long haul Charlottetown - Goose Bay (Lab) - Frobisher Bay (NWT) - Saglek.
Nordair: C-46 Montreal (Dorval) to Roberval (Lac St Jean), and Val D’or (Western Quebec). Probably also Dorval - Kingston - Hamilton or Toronto - Pittsburgh (USA). Main Nordair business was however long haul into the deep Arctic using C-54, but perhaps C-46 sometimes flew the following C-54 route when no C-54 available. Dorval - Schefferville (Labrador) - Fort Chimo (South side Ungava bay) - Great Whale - Cape Dyer - Hall Beach (Baffin Island) - Frobisher Bay - Resolute Bay (Cornwallis Island).
Northern Wings: C-46 from hub at Sept Iles (Quebec). Scheduled routes, mostly eastbound along the northern side of the Gulf of St Lawrence, incorporating Aguanish, Baie Johan, Beetz, Blanc Sablon, Gethsemanie, Harington Harbour, Harve St-Pierre, Kegaska, La Tabatiere, Natashquan, Old Fort Bay, St Paul, Tete a la Baleine, Burnt Creek and Gagnon. Some of those airfields were too small to be served by C-46. Also C-46 charters from Sept Iles to major Canadian airports on the Eastern side of Canada.
Pacific Western Airlines: C-46 charters from Vancouver to most airfields with large enough runways in BC and Alberta.
Quebecair: C-46 from hub at Rimouski. R - Matane - Sept Isles - Wabush (Lab) - Schefferville (Lab) and in the other direction Rimouski - Mont Joli - Montreal (Dorval) - Val d’Or.
Reeve Aleutian Airways: C-46 from Anchorage to Seattle and all major Alaskan airfields.
Wheeler Airlines: C-46 charters from St Jovite Station (NW of Montreal). Specialised in contract work in the far north. Canada’s oldest airline. C-46 feeder routes to Montreal (Dorval) and Quebec. Also irregular services to various points en route Goose Bay and Northwest River.
Wien Alaska Airlines: C-46 from Fairbanks to Tanana, Galena, Bettles, Nome, Point Barrow, Point Yukon, Whitehorse (Yukon) and Juneau.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in Central America
Aerocarga: C-46 Tijuana to La Paz, Isla de Cedros, Bahia Tortugas. Deportees under US government contract Tijuana to Leon.
Aero Fletes Internationales: C-46 charters from Panama City throughout the region.
Aerovias Contreras: C-46 Tijuana to Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and La Paz.
Balboa Airlines: C-46 from David (Panama) to Panama City and on to Miami.
Empressa Guatamalteca de Aviacion (Aviateca): C-46 from hub in Guatemala City to all domestic airfields with adequate runways. Frequent, but unscheduled, freight service to New Orleans and also charters for regional operations, sometimes as far as Buenos Aires. International C-46 schedule to Tapachula (Mexico).
LACSA (Lineas Aerea Costarricenses): C-46, from hub at San Jose to all domestic airfields with an adequate runway plus Havana, Grand Cayman and via code share C-46 to all colonial airfields in the British West Indies with adequate runways. Onward from Grand Cayman to Miami.
Lineas Aereas del Caribe: C-46 international schedule San Jose - San Andres.
LANICA (Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua): C-46 from hub at Managua to all domestic airfields with an adequate runway. C-46 international services to most, if not all, Central American capitals, plus Miami.
Servicios Aereos Especiales (SAESA): Existed to deport Mexicans from the USA. Collected at Reynosa, Matamoros or Ciudad Juarez the deportees were flown to Leon by C-46.
Servicios Aereo de Honduras: C-46 international schedule from Tegucigalpa to the Colombian island of San Andres.
Tigres Voladores (Flying Tigers): C-46 in 82 passenger seat configuration! Another airline shipping deportees south but they had a stewardess who handed out free return bus tickets to ensure repeat business. Mexicali - Gueymas - Durango - Aguascalientes - Leon - Mexico City.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in the Caribbean
Aerovias Nacionales Quisqueyanas: C-46 regional charters to anywhere with an adeqaute runway plus flagship schedule Santo Domingo - San Juan - Miami.
Caraibische Lucht Transport Maatschappij: C-46 operator founded in 1962 to take over the freight traffic formerly carried by KLM. Hub in Curacao. Mostly direct to Miami but also charters to any airfield around the region with an adequate runway.
Cubana: Largest airline in the region in the C-46 era. C-46 from Havana to all domestic airfields with adequate runways plus trunk international services to Miami, Nassau, Merida and Barranquilla and the important Havana - Kingston - Caracas and Havana - Mexico City routes.
Dominicana: C-46 from Santo Domingo internally to all airfields with adequate runways and on the flagship routes to San Juan, Miami, Curacao and Caracas.
Puerto Rico American Airlines: During the sixties C-46 charters from San Juan to anywhere around the Caribbean with an adequate runway, except Cuba.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in South America
Argentina
Aerolineas Argentinas: C-46 from Buenos Aires to all domestic airfields with an adequate runway plus Montevideo.
Aerotransportes entre Rios: C-46 schedule from Ezeiza (Argentina) to Montevideo.
Aerotransportes Litoral Argentino: C-46 from hub at Rosario to Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Cordoba plus Montevideo.
Aerovias Halcon: C-46 freight charters from Buenos Aires to most major cities right across South America.
Austral: C-46 from hub at Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata and then stopping at every airfield with an adequate runway along the Patagonian coast down to Rio Grande. International services to both Montevideo and Colonia.
Transcontinental: C-46 from Buenos Aires to all domestic airfields with an adequate runway plus Montevideo.
Brazil
Aero Geral: C-46 Rio - Recife - Natal
Aerovias Brazil: C-46 from Sao Paulo hub to all domestic airfields with an adequate runway plus bus stop route to Miami, probably matching the old PAA (non C-46) route.
Loide Aereo Nacional: C-46 Rio - Sao Luiz - Manaos. Porto Allegre - Sao Paulo - Rio - Recife - Natal or Recife - Belem - Manaus.
Paraense: C-46 from hub at Belem to Brasilia, Rio, Pedro Afonso, Rio Branco, Porto Velho, Christalandia, Cuiaba, Goiana, Campo Grande, Fortaleza, Recife, Sao Luiz, Sao Paulo and Manaus.
REAL Aerovias Brasilia Nacional: For many years the world’s largest operator of DC-3s with 78 still in service in 1961, REAL also flew a small number of C-46s from its hub in Sao Paulo, serving all domestic airfields with an adequate runway.
Sadia: C-46 from Sao Paulo to all points in SE Brazil with adequate runways. Also to Rio and Concordia.
VARIG: C-46 from Rio to all domestic airfields with an adequate runways plus flagship international service Rio - Sao Paulo - Porto Alegre - Pelotas - Montevideo - Buenos Aires. Very high frequency Rio - Sao Paulo - Curitiba. Large secondary hub at Porto Alegre which was the original focus of VARIG operations. C-46s later flew charters to all major foreign cities within non stop range of either Rio or Porto Alegre.
VASP: C-46 from Sao Paulo to all significant airfields in south and central Brazil.
Chile
Aerolineas Chileanas: C-46 freight charters from Santiago plus scheduled bus stop route to Miami.
Aerolineas Flecha Austral (ALFA): C-46 schedule Santiago - Antocigarette endasta - Iquique - Arica.
Linea Aerea Sud Americana (LASA): C-46 scedules Santiago - Antocigarette endasta - Iquique - Arica plus Mendoza (Argentina).
Transa Chile: C-46 freight schedules to Lima, Guayaquil, Panama City and Caracas from Santiago. C-46 passenger services to all domestic airfields with adequate runways and also onwards into Argentina.
Transportes Aereos Squella: C-46 from Santiago via any coastal airfield with an adequate runway all the way down to Punta Arenas.
Colombia
Aero Condor: C-46 Bogota - Medellin - Barranquilla - San Andres - Miami.
Aerovias Condor de Colombia: C-46 from Bogata to all domestic airfields with adequate runways.
Avianca (Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia): C-46 from Bogota to all domestic airfields with adequate runways.
Lineas Aereas La Urraca: C-46 from hub at Villavicencio to Bogata, Buenaventura, Pasto, Tumaco, Quibido, Condoto, Aguazal, Mitu, Cali, Sogamosuo and Miraflores.
Servicios Especiales Aereos: C-46 freight charters from Bogota to all domestic airfields with adequate runways and semi regular charter service Bogota - Barranquilla - San Andres.
Sociedade Aeronautica de Medellin: C-46 from hub at Medellin to all domestic airfields with adequate runways plus flagship international route via San Jose (Costa Rica) to Miami.
Taxi Aereo Opita: C-46 from hub at Neiva Huila to all domestic airfields with adequate runways.
Ecuador
Andes Airlines: C-46 Guayaquil to Quito.
Compania Ecuatoriana de Aviacion: C-46 Lima - Guayaquil - Quito - Cali (Colombia) - Panama City - Miami. Based at Guayaquil.
Peru
Aerolineas Peruanas: C-46 Lima to Talara.
Aerovias Amazonas: C-46 flying live tropical fish from Iquitos to Lima for distribution on the world market.
Compania de Aviacion Trans Peruana: C-46 from hub at Lima to all towns in the north east of Peru with adequate runways. Main passenger route Lima - Iquitos.
SATCO (previously Grupo del Transportes, previously Transportes Aereos Militaires): A division of the Peruvian Air Force flew C-46 civilian passenger and freight services from Lima to all Peruvian airfields with large enough runways.
Uruguay
Aerolineas Colonia (ARCO): C-46 from Colonia to Buenos Aires.
CAUSA: C-46 Montevideo and Colonia to Buenos Aires.
Venezuela
AVENSA: C-46 from hub at Caracas to all domestic airfields with large enough runways and most capital cities of Central America.
LEBCA: C-46 freight charters from Caracas to Miami.
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana (LAV): C-46 overnight mail and daytime pax from hub at Caracas to all towns in Venezuela with adequate runways. Probably the largest night schedule operator of the C-46. Also C-46 day and night internationals from Caracas to Trinidad and Curacao.
RANSA: C-46 from Caracas to Miami via Aruba or Curacao.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in Asia
Civil Air Transport: Formed in 1946 and flying throughout China until the Communist revolution of 1949. After the move to Taipei flew only international services plus some internal charters and schedules to the four largest Taiwanese airfields (see below). Main CAT aircraft was C-46 for decades. Key C-46s routes were Taipei - Okinawa or Pusan - Tokyo and the services to Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok and Seoul.
Foshing Airlines: From early sixties a Teipei based charter operator who took over the CAT C-46 scheduled services to Hualien, Taitung, Taichung and Keahsiung.
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Due to its poor safety record, and the FAAs reservations, the C-46 saw very little post war use outside the Americas and Taiwan. I doubt that it was ever certificated as a passenger aircraft in Europe. Its precursor was flown by BOAC, but they did not want the C-46. Use in Africa was associated with the post colonial civil war in the Congo and was quite brief. No post war use in Australasia or non-U.S. Oceania as far as I can tell. I shall leave description of substantial wartime and post war US originated services (outside Alaska) to others.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in Europe
Fred Olsen Flyvelskap: C-46 freight charters from Oslo to all significant Scandinavian airfields and somewhat beyond.
Societa Aerea Mediterranea (SAM): C-46 freight schedule Rome - Milan - Paris.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in Africa
Air Cameroun: C-46 from Douala to all domestic airfields with adequate runways. Probably gun running into the Congo as well.
Air Congo: C-46 hub at Leopoldville flying international schedules to Luanda, Ndola, Entebbe, Nairobi and Lagos plus all internal airfields (under government control) large enough to take a C-46.
FSAviator 1/2008
Anyone who is using my flight dynamics which replicate the FAA post war civil certification, (as flown by FT), to fly over the Hump or out of Bogota will need to use the US military and Colombian civil certification versions, with the two speed blower cogs in place, else the C-46A will crash on both overseas routes!
Here are many of the C-46 routes outside the continental USA from FSAviator:
Real Curtiss C-46 Commando routes
The C-46 is a very interesting aeroplane to operate over its real routes in real weather. However we must remember that at many of the places it served it could not depart with anything like a full load and that it almost always had a headwind during take off in real life. Then we must remember that some of the real destinations were compatible only with the highest performance versions of the C-46 whilst FSAviator’s flight dynamics are specific to the C-46A. Finally we must remember that many of the co-efficients of friction assigned to the different runways surfaces by Microsoft, third party scenery designers, and AFCAD providers may be bogus and excessive.
The following list of routes flown by the C-46 is by no means complete, but it should keep even the keenest FS9 C-46 operator busy for several years. Spelling mistakes likely in place names, at least as defined by Microsoft.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in Alaska or Canada
Alaska Airlines: C-46 Anchorage - Fairbanks and Juneau - Dawson City.
Canadian Pacific: C-46 from Vancouver to all airfields with long enough runways, including and within the Dawson City to Edmonton to Calgary arc.
Central Northern Airways: C-46 from Winnipeg to Lac du Bonnet and then the long haul north to Norway House at the northern end of Lake Winnipeg. Round west of Lake Manitoba via Dauphin to The Pas, Flyn Flon and on to Lynn Lake.
Cordova Airlines: C-46 non stop flights from Cordova to Anchorage, Homer, Dawson City (BC), Fairbanks, Yukatat, Chisana, Katalla, Ellamar and Prince William Sound. Anchorage flights go on to Seward or Valdez or Yakataga.
Eastern Provincial Airways: C-46 from hub at Gander flying St Johns - Gander - Deer Lake - Wabush (Labrador) or - Deer Lake - Twin Falls, plus charters to major Canadian airports.
Interior Airways: C-46 freight charters from hub at Fairbanks to anywhere relevant in Alaska, but mostly to Sagwon.
Maritime Central Airways: C-46 from hub at Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. Ch - Moncton then Fredericton or St John (NB). Ch - New Glasgow (NS) - Halifax (NS). Ch - the Magdelen Islands (Iles de Madelein). Charlottetown to Sept Isles (Quebec) or Charlottetown - Stephenville (NF) - Gander - St Johns. Long haul Charlottetown - Goose Bay (Lab) - Frobisher Bay (NWT) - Saglek.
Nordair: C-46 Montreal (Dorval) to Roberval (Lac St Jean), and Val D’or (Western Quebec). Probably also Dorval - Kingston - Hamilton or Toronto - Pittsburgh (USA). Main Nordair business was however long haul into the deep Arctic using C-54, but perhaps C-46 sometimes flew the following C-54 route when no C-54 available. Dorval - Schefferville (Labrador) - Fort Chimo (South side Ungava bay) - Great Whale - Cape Dyer - Hall Beach (Baffin Island) - Frobisher Bay - Resolute Bay (Cornwallis Island).
Northern Wings: C-46 from hub at Sept Iles (Quebec). Scheduled routes, mostly eastbound along the northern side of the Gulf of St Lawrence, incorporating Aguanish, Baie Johan, Beetz, Blanc Sablon, Gethsemanie, Harington Harbour, Harve St-Pierre, Kegaska, La Tabatiere, Natashquan, Old Fort Bay, St Paul, Tete a la Baleine, Burnt Creek and Gagnon. Some of those airfields were too small to be served by C-46. Also C-46 charters from Sept Iles to major Canadian airports on the Eastern side of Canada.
Pacific Western Airlines: C-46 charters from Vancouver to most airfields with large enough runways in BC and Alberta.
Quebecair: C-46 from hub at Rimouski. R - Matane - Sept Isles - Wabush (Lab) - Schefferville (Lab) and in the other direction Rimouski - Mont Joli - Montreal (Dorval) - Val d’Or.
Reeve Aleutian Airways: C-46 from Anchorage to Seattle and all major Alaskan airfields.
Wheeler Airlines: C-46 charters from St Jovite Station (NW of Montreal). Specialised in contract work in the far north. Canada’s oldest airline. C-46 feeder routes to Montreal (Dorval) and Quebec. Also irregular services to various points en route Goose Bay and Northwest River.
Wien Alaska Airlines: C-46 from Fairbanks to Tanana, Galena, Bettles, Nome, Point Barrow, Point Yukon, Whitehorse (Yukon) and Juneau.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in Central America
Aerocarga: C-46 Tijuana to La Paz, Isla de Cedros, Bahia Tortugas. Deportees under US government contract Tijuana to Leon.
Aero Fletes Internationales: C-46 charters from Panama City throughout the region.
Aerovias Contreras: C-46 Tijuana to Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and La Paz.
Balboa Airlines: C-46 from David (Panama) to Panama City and on to Miami.
Empressa Guatamalteca de Aviacion (Aviateca): C-46 from hub in Guatemala City to all domestic airfields with adequate runways. Frequent, but unscheduled, freight service to New Orleans and also charters for regional operations, sometimes as far as Buenos Aires. International C-46 schedule to Tapachula (Mexico).
LACSA (Lineas Aerea Costarricenses): C-46, from hub at San Jose to all domestic airfields with an adequate runway plus Havana, Grand Cayman and via code share C-46 to all colonial airfields in the British West Indies with adequate runways. Onward from Grand Cayman to Miami.
Lineas Aereas del Caribe: C-46 international schedule San Jose - San Andres.
LANICA (Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua): C-46 from hub at Managua to all domestic airfields with an adequate runway. C-46 international services to most, if not all, Central American capitals, plus Miami.
Servicios Aereos Especiales (SAESA): Existed to deport Mexicans from the USA. Collected at Reynosa, Matamoros or Ciudad Juarez the deportees were flown to Leon by C-46.
Servicios Aereo de Honduras: C-46 international schedule from Tegucigalpa to the Colombian island of San Andres.
Tigres Voladores (Flying Tigers): C-46 in 82 passenger seat configuration! Another airline shipping deportees south but they had a stewardess who handed out free return bus tickets to ensure repeat business. Mexicali - Gueymas - Durango - Aguascalientes - Leon - Mexico City.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in the Caribbean
Aerovias Nacionales Quisqueyanas: C-46 regional charters to anywhere with an adeqaute runway plus flagship schedule Santo Domingo - San Juan - Miami.
Caraibische Lucht Transport Maatschappij: C-46 operator founded in 1962 to take over the freight traffic formerly carried by KLM. Hub in Curacao. Mostly direct to Miami but also charters to any airfield around the region with an adequate runway.
Cubana: Largest airline in the region in the C-46 era. C-46 from Havana to all domestic airfields with adequate runways plus trunk international services to Miami, Nassau, Merida and Barranquilla and the important Havana - Kingston - Caracas and Havana - Mexico City routes.
Dominicana: C-46 from Santo Domingo internally to all airfields with adequate runways and on the flagship routes to San Juan, Miami, Curacao and Caracas.
Puerto Rico American Airlines: During the sixties C-46 charters from San Juan to anywhere around the Caribbean with an adequate runway, except Cuba.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in South America
Argentina
Aerolineas Argentinas: C-46 from Buenos Aires to all domestic airfields with an adequate runway plus Montevideo.
Aerotransportes entre Rios: C-46 schedule from Ezeiza (Argentina) to Montevideo.
Aerotransportes Litoral Argentino: C-46 from hub at Rosario to Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Cordoba plus Montevideo.
Aerovias Halcon: C-46 freight charters from Buenos Aires to most major cities right across South America.
Austral: C-46 from hub at Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata and then stopping at every airfield with an adequate runway along the Patagonian coast down to Rio Grande. International services to both Montevideo and Colonia.
Transcontinental: C-46 from Buenos Aires to all domestic airfields with an adequate runway plus Montevideo.
Brazil
Aero Geral: C-46 Rio - Recife - Natal
Aerovias Brazil: C-46 from Sao Paulo hub to all domestic airfields with an adequate runway plus bus stop route to Miami, probably matching the old PAA (non C-46) route.
Loide Aereo Nacional: C-46 Rio - Sao Luiz - Manaos. Porto Allegre - Sao Paulo - Rio - Recife - Natal or Recife - Belem - Manaus.
Paraense: C-46 from hub at Belem to Brasilia, Rio, Pedro Afonso, Rio Branco, Porto Velho, Christalandia, Cuiaba, Goiana, Campo Grande, Fortaleza, Recife, Sao Luiz, Sao Paulo and Manaus.
REAL Aerovias Brasilia Nacional: For many years the world’s largest operator of DC-3s with 78 still in service in 1961, REAL also flew a small number of C-46s from its hub in Sao Paulo, serving all domestic airfields with an adequate runway.
Sadia: C-46 from Sao Paulo to all points in SE Brazil with adequate runways. Also to Rio and Concordia.
VARIG: C-46 from Rio to all domestic airfields with an adequate runways plus flagship international service Rio - Sao Paulo - Porto Alegre - Pelotas - Montevideo - Buenos Aires. Very high frequency Rio - Sao Paulo - Curitiba. Large secondary hub at Porto Alegre which was the original focus of VARIG operations. C-46s later flew charters to all major foreign cities within non stop range of either Rio or Porto Alegre.
VASP: C-46 from Sao Paulo to all significant airfields in south and central Brazil.
Chile
Aerolineas Chileanas: C-46 freight charters from Santiago plus scheduled bus stop route to Miami.
Aerolineas Flecha Austral (ALFA): C-46 schedule Santiago - Antocigarette endasta - Iquique - Arica.
Linea Aerea Sud Americana (LASA): C-46 scedules Santiago - Antocigarette endasta - Iquique - Arica plus Mendoza (Argentina).
Transa Chile: C-46 freight schedules to Lima, Guayaquil, Panama City and Caracas from Santiago. C-46 passenger services to all domestic airfields with adequate runways and also onwards into Argentina.
Transportes Aereos Squella: C-46 from Santiago via any coastal airfield with an adequate runway all the way down to Punta Arenas.
Colombia
Aero Condor: C-46 Bogota - Medellin - Barranquilla - San Andres - Miami.
Aerovias Condor de Colombia: C-46 from Bogata to all domestic airfields with adequate runways.
Avianca (Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia): C-46 from Bogota to all domestic airfields with adequate runways.
Lineas Aereas La Urraca: C-46 from hub at Villavicencio to Bogata, Buenaventura, Pasto, Tumaco, Quibido, Condoto, Aguazal, Mitu, Cali, Sogamosuo and Miraflores.
Servicios Especiales Aereos: C-46 freight charters from Bogota to all domestic airfields with adequate runways and semi regular charter service Bogota - Barranquilla - San Andres.
Sociedade Aeronautica de Medellin: C-46 from hub at Medellin to all domestic airfields with adequate runways plus flagship international route via San Jose (Costa Rica) to Miami.
Taxi Aereo Opita: C-46 from hub at Neiva Huila to all domestic airfields with adequate runways.
Ecuador
Andes Airlines: C-46 Guayaquil to Quito.
Compania Ecuatoriana de Aviacion: C-46 Lima - Guayaquil - Quito - Cali (Colombia) - Panama City - Miami. Based at Guayaquil.
Peru
Aerolineas Peruanas: C-46 Lima to Talara.
Aerovias Amazonas: C-46 flying live tropical fish from Iquitos to Lima for distribution on the world market.
Compania de Aviacion Trans Peruana: C-46 from hub at Lima to all towns in the north east of Peru with adequate runways. Main passenger route Lima - Iquitos.
SATCO (previously Grupo del Transportes, previously Transportes Aereos Militaires): A division of the Peruvian Air Force flew C-46 civilian passenger and freight services from Lima to all Peruvian airfields with large enough runways.
Uruguay
Aerolineas Colonia (ARCO): C-46 from Colonia to Buenos Aires.
CAUSA: C-46 Montevideo and Colonia to Buenos Aires.
Venezuela
AVENSA: C-46 from hub at Caracas to all domestic airfields with large enough runways and most capital cities of Central America.
LEBCA: C-46 freight charters from Caracas to Miami.
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana (LAV): C-46 overnight mail and daytime pax from hub at Caracas to all towns in Venezuela with adequate runways. Probably the largest night schedule operator of the C-46. Also C-46 day and night internationals from Caracas to Trinidad and Curacao.
RANSA: C-46 from Caracas to Miami via Aruba or Curacao.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in Asia
Civil Air Transport: Formed in 1946 and flying throughout China until the Communist revolution of 1949. After the move to Taipei flew only international services plus some internal charters and schedules to the four largest Taiwanese airfields (see below). Main CAT aircraft was C-46 for decades. Key C-46s routes were Taipei - Okinawa or Pusan - Tokyo and the services to Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok and Seoul.
Foshing Airlines: From early sixties a Teipei based charter operator who took over the CAT C-46 scheduled services to Hualien, Taitung, Taichung and Keahsiung.
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Due to its poor safety record, and the FAAs reservations, the C-46 saw very little post war use outside the Americas and Taiwan. I doubt that it was ever certificated as a passenger aircraft in Europe. Its precursor was flown by BOAC, but they did not want the C-46. Use in Africa was associated with the post colonial civil war in the Congo and was quite brief. No post war use in Australasia or non-U.S. Oceania as far as I can tell. I shall leave description of substantial wartime and post war US originated services (outside Alaska) to others.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in Europe
Fred Olsen Flyvelskap: C-46 freight charters from Oslo to all significant Scandinavian airfields and somewhat beyond.
Societa Aerea Mediterranea (SAM): C-46 freight schedule Rome - Milan - Paris.
Known or probable C-46 routes originating in Africa
Air Cameroun: C-46 from Douala to all domestic airfields with adequate runways. Probably gun running into the Congo as well.
Air Congo: C-46 hub at Leopoldville flying international schedules to Luanda, Ndola, Entebbe, Nairobi and Lagos plus all internal airfields (under government control) large enough to take a C-46.
FSAviator 1/2008