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Commando 42-107394

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107394

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27081

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU721

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  ca 1944 to ca 1945

  42-107394 - USAAF (USA)

ca 1944

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

[Early history missing according to AB]

[Accident on 19 September 1944 attributed to this aircraft by JB & AAIR actually happened to 42-107397]

  ca 1945 to May 1948

  42-107394 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

ca 1945

Probably transferred to RFC and stored.

  May 1948 to January 1949

  42-107394 - USAF (USA)

21 May 1948

Returned to USAF service under the obsolete type designation ZC-46A.

Assigned to the Warner Robins Air Materiel Area based at Robins AFB, GA.

12 July 1948

Sent for reclamation at Robins AFB, GA.

7 January 1949

Reclamation completed at Robins AFB, GA.

Last edited: 22/10/2019