Commando 42-107392
Aircraft Identification
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
Operational Record
June 1944 to September 1947
42-107392 - USAAF (USA)
June 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
September 1947 to March 1965
42-107392 - USAF (USA)
18 September 1947
Transferred.
Unknown date
Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.
Unknown date
Assigned to 514th Troop Carrier Group, 337th 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 2343rd 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)
2 March 1965
Purchased less engines from USAF. Total airframe time 5,883 hours.
1972 to 1978
CP-987 - TAI (TRANS AEREOS ILLIMANI) (BOLIVIA)
1972
Purchased.
February 1977
Damaged in an accident.
Withdrawn from use and stored La Paz El Alto, Bolivia.
1988 to 1991
CP-987 - AEROVIAS LAS MINAS (BOLIVIA)
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)
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)
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Withdrawn from use and stored La Paz El Alto, Bolivia.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
Last edited: 11/06/2021