Commando 42-107376

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

  June 1944 to ca 1953

  42-107376 - USAAF (USA)

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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)

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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Below, right: several years later in Oakland: paint starts chipping off, and “MAT” has been replaced by the full airline’s name.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

  August 1961 to 1962

  CF-NAE - NORDAIR (CANADA)

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August 1961

Purchased. [quoted as 1959 by PL]

  1962 to 1963

  CF-NAE - EASTERN PROVINCIAL AIRWAYS (CANADA)

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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)

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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