Commando 42-3590
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3590
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26723
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU363
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
December 1943 to January 1944
42-3590 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
20 December 1943
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
January 1944 to November 1945
42-3590 - USAAF (USA)
31 January 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
18 February 1944
Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.
7 August 1945
Assigned to Great Falls, MT.
November 1945 to May 1948
42-3590 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)
30 November 1945
Transferred to RFC and stored at Ontario AAF, CA.
May 1948 to February 1949
42-3590 - USAF (USA)
21 May 1948
Returned to USAF service under the obsolete type designation ZC-46A.
16 September 1948
Assigned to the San Bernardino Air Materiel Area based at San Bernardino AFB, CA.
18 February 1949
Reclamation completed at San Bernardino AFB, CA.
[this Commando is quoted by JB as being US Navy Bu.No.39536]
Last edited: 06/02/2019