Commando 42-101118
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-50-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101118
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30573
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1109
FATE: Unknown
Operational Record
September 1944 to November 1945
42-101118 - USAAF (USA)
19 September 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
Assigned to I Troop Carrier Command, based at Baer Field, IN.
Stayed within the Continental USA.
November 1945 to November 1948
42-101118 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)
15 November 1945
Transferred to RFC and stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.
November 1948 to May 1950
N51658 - UNITED SERVICES FOR AIR INC. (USA)
November 1948
Purchased from RFC.
24 November 1948
Registered.
26 June 1950
Registration cancelled, export to Colombia.
May 1950 to April 1955
HK-158 - AVIANCA (COLOMBIA)
May 1955
Purchased.
21 September 1952
Damaged in Barranquilla, Colombia in an accident.
April 1955 to ca 1974
YV-C-AVB - AVENSA (AEROVIAS VENEZOLANAS SA) (VENEZUELA)
April 1955
Purchased.
11 July 1955
Registered.
Right: an unidentified shot of YV-C-AVB
Photo credit: Air Britain
ca 1974 to ca 1975
YV-C-TGI - LATIN CARGA (VENEZUELA)
ca 1974
Purchased.
ca 1975
Withdrawn from use and stored at Caracas Simon Bolivar, Venezuela.
[PL quotes a reregistration to YV-141C in 1975, but if it actually happened it was never taken up]
Left: YV-C-TGI engineless and derelict at Caracas Simon Bolivar on 9 October 1980.
Photo credit: Peter Davis / Air Britain