Commando 42-3596

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

  December 1943 to January 1944

  42-3596 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

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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)

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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

  42-3596 - INDIAN GOVERNMENT (INDIA)

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10 April 1946

Purchased.

  September 1956 to October 1956

  N10436 - ASSOCIATED AIR TRANSPORT (USA)

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September 1956

Purchased.

[It is suspected that a broker actually purchased the aircraft first from the Indian Government]

  October 1956 to November 1956

  N10436 - BANKERS LIFE & CASUALTY (USA)

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October 1956

Purchased.

  November 1956 to August 1961

  PP-AKG - TAN (TRANSPORTES AEREOS NACIONAL) (BRAZIL)

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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)

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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.