Commando 42-107392

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107392

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27079

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU719

FATE: Stored

  June 1944 to September 1947

  42-107392 - USAAF (USA)

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June 1944

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

  September 1947 to March 1965

  42-107392 - USAF (USA)

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18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.

Unknown date

Assigned to 514^th Troop Carrier Group, 337^th Troop Carrier Squadron, based at Mitchel AFB, NY.

5 November 1951

Received minor damage at Mitchel AFB, NY in a takeoff accident due to a mechanical failure.

Pilot: Stanley Pell

Unknown date

Assigned to 2343^rd Air Force Reserve Training Center, based at Portland International, OR.

14 March 1958

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

20 March 1964

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

  March 1965 to 1972

  N91365 - C-46 PARTS INC. (USA)

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2 March 1965

Purchased less engines from USAF. Total airframe time 5,883 hours.

  1972 to 1978

  CP-987 - TAI (TRANS AEREOS ILLIMANI) (BOLIVIA)

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1972

Purchased.

February 1977

Damaged in an accident.

Withdrawn from use and stored La Paz El Alto, Bolivia.

  1978 to 1983

  CP-987 - FRIMO (FRIGORIFICO MOVIMA) (BOLIVIA)

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1978

Purchased.

  1983 to 1988

  CP-987 - SABENI (SERVICIO AEREO BENI) (BOLIVIA)

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1983

Purchased.

  1988 to 1991

  CP-987 - AEROVIAS LAS MINAS (BOLIVIA)

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1988

Purchased.

 

Below, left: CP-987 parked at La Paz El Alto, Bolivia in October 1988.
Photo credit: Manfred Poznanski / www.pozefilm.de

Below, right: CP-987 seen in Cochabamba, Bolivia on 30 July 1988 with Aerovias Las Minas.
Photo credit: Jorge Wilstermann / Airliners.net

  1991 to December 1994

  CP-987 - AERO BENI (BOLIVIA)

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1991

Purchased.

 

Left: CP-987 engineless at La Paz El Alto, Bolivia, on 23 September 1994.
Photo credit: Peter M. Garwood / picssr.com

  December 1994 to present

  CP-987 - AIR BENI (BOLIVIA)

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December 1994

Transferred as Aero Beni changed its name to Air Beni.

July 1996

Withdrawn from use and stored La Paz El Alto, Bolivia.

 

Right: CP-987, scavenged for spares but still sitting in La Paz El Alto, September 2017.
Photo credit: Hans Wiesman (pictured) / www.dc3dakotahunter.com