Zasntop Air Transport  Curtiss C-46  N53594                               (c/n  22486)

                                  

                                        Zantop Air Transpoirt operated a vast fleet of some 50 plus Curtiss C-46sa.  Two of them are
                                        illustrated in these two snowy shiots taken by Bob Garrard in March 1967 (?). - the airline sold
                                        out to Universal Consilidated Industriues in 1966, but the aircraft probably continued in Zantop
                                        livery some time after that take over.     N53594 was seen at Indianapolis International and, for
                                        ome reason, unless they were left-overs from its previous owners (Meteor Air Transport, Riddle,
                                        et al), it is carrying the registration three times - on the tail, the fuselage and the nose!  This C-46
                                        wound up preserved at the CAF's 'China Doll' at Camarillo, California.      By 1966 most of the
                                        Zantop fleet had been re-registered with suffix 'Z' registrations.  N611Z below, seen at Cleveland's
                                        Hopkins International Airport was formerly N1382N.

                                     N611Z  Curtiss C-46                      (c/n  421)