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Commando 42-3569

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-30-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3569

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26702

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU342

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1943 to February 1946

  42-3569 - USAAF (USA)

1 December 1943

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

9 December 1943

Departed the USA for an unknown foreign assignment.

10 October 1945

Withdrawn from use as Class 26 (instructional airframe) and used for ground instruction in Buffalo, NY.

  February 1946 to unknown date

  42-3569 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

26 February 1946

Transferred to RFC, stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.

Last edited: 28/01/2019