Commando 41-24700

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-25-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24700

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26621

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU261

FATE: Broken up

  September 1943 to September 1947

  41-24700 - USAAF (USA)

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September 1943

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

  September 1947 to 1960

  41-24700 - USAF (USA)

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18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 2347^th Air Force Reserve Training Center based at Long Beach AFB, CA.

10 January 1958

Assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

2 February 1959

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

  1960 to November 1960

  N9346R - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)

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1960

Purchased from USAF.

  November 1960 to 1962

  PP-NML - NAB (NAVEGACAO AEREA BRASILEIRA) (BRAZIL)

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6 November 1960

Purchased.

24 March 1961

Registered.

  1962 to June 1969

  PP-NML - VASP (VIACAO AEREA SAO PAULO) (BRAZIL)

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1962

Transferred, as NAB was purchased by Loide Aereo Nacional, which was immediately taken over by VASP.

13 September 1964

Certificate of airworthiness expired. Withdrawn from use at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont, Brazil.

June 1969

Broken up.

 

Right: a pretty Flight Simulator rendering of PP-NML in VASP colors.
Photo credit: unknown