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Commando 42-3636

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3636

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26769

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU409

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  January 1944 to December 1945

  42-3636 - USAAF (USA)


31 January 1944

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

30 January 1944

Assigned to ATC North Atlantic Wing. Date is assignment date.

2 April 1945

Assigned back to the continental USA.

  December 1945 to May 1948

  42-3636 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


9 December 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  May 1948 to February 1949

  42-3636 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

Returned to USAF service under the obsolete type designation ZC-46A.

Unknown date

Assigned to the San Bernardino Air Materiel Area based at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

16 June 1948

Sent for reclamation at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

18 February 1949

Reclamation completed at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

Last edited: 15/05/2019