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Commando 42-3578

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3578

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26711

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU351

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  December 1943 to September 1947

  42-3578 - USAAF (USA)

December 1943

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

  September 1947 to 1959

  42-3578 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 2346th Air Force Reserve Training Center based at Hamilton AFB, CA.

31 January 1958

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

2 February 1959

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

  1959 to 1960

  N9258Z - UNKNOWN (USA)

1959

Purchased from the US Air Force.

  1960 to 1961

  N9090R - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)

1960

Purchased. [date is vague, also quoted as 1959] [registration quoted as N9070R by JB, typo?]

Nothing further is known about this Commando. It could possibly have been used for parts by L. B. Smith.

[this Commando is sometimes quoted as US Marine Corps' Bu.No.39524, however that is impossible as it is clearly documented in AMARC archives]