Commando 42-3596
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3596
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26729
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU369
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
December 1943 to January 1944
42-3596 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
22 December 1943
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
January 1944 to April 1946
42-3596 - USAAF (USA)
25 January 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
11 February 1944
Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 11, Missamari, Assam, India.
12 April 1944
Received major damage at RAF Amarda Road, Orissa, India in a takeoff accident.
Pilot: Lake E. Ellis
17 June 1944
Condemned for salvage.
14 September 1944
Reinstated.
Unknown date
Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.
April 1946 to September 1956 September 1956 to October 1956
N10436 - ASSOCIATED AIR TRANSPORT (USA)
September 1956
Purchased.
[It is suspected that a broker actually purchased the aircraft first from the Indian Government]
November 1956 to August 1961
PP-AKG - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONAL) (BRAZIL)
November 1956
Purchased.
15 October 1959
Registered.
Operated as part of the Real-Aerovias-Nacional consortium.
August 1961 to June 1969
PP-AKG - VARIG (BRAZIL)
August 1961
Transferred as part of the purchase of the Real-Aerovias-Nacional consortium by VARIG.
ca 1966
Broken up at Porto Alegre, Brazil.
9 June 1969
Registration cancelled.
Last edited: 30/03/2019