Commando 42-107376
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107376
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27063
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU703
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
June 1944 to ca 1953
42-107376 - USAAF (USA)
1 June 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
28 June 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Wing.
Unknown date
Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.
23 July 1946
Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.
ca 1953 to August 1961
N3935C - MODERN AIR TRANSPORT (USA)
By 1953
Purchased. [quoted as 1959 by PL]
Unknown date
Converted to Super 46C.
Below, left: N3935C, already a Super 46C, refuels at dusk in Rochester, NY, 1960.
Photo credit: Tom Kirn / Airliners.net
Below, right: several years later in Oakland: paint starts chipping off, and “MAT” has been replaced by the full airline’s name.
Photo credit: unknown / picssr.com
1962 to 1963
CF-NAE - EASTERN PROVINCIAL AIRWAYS (CANADA)
1962
Leased from Nordair.
Right: this Western Models 1:200 replica shows CF-NAE in Eastern Provincial Airways colors.
Photo credit: Aviation Retail Direct
1963 to September 1971
CF-NAE - NORDAIR (CANADA)
1963
Returned from lease contract with Eastern Provincial Airways.
30 June 1971
Destroyed in Hall Beach, Northwest Territories, Canada in a hangar fire.
15 September 1971
Dismantled.
Below, left: CF-NAE at dawn, Montreal Dorval, June 1963.
Photo credit: Mel Lawrence / Airliners.net
Below, right: CF-NAE sporting the new Nordair livery in front of Montreal’s company hangars, September 1965.
Photo credit: Jean-Pierre Bonin / Airliners.net
Last edited: 14/10/2019