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Commando 42-3640

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3640

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26773

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU413

FATE: Written off

Operational record

  January 1944 to January 1946

  42-3640 - USAAF (USA)

27 January 1944

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

3 March 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

29 May 1945

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  January 1946 to 1947

  42-3640 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

15 January 1946

Transferred to RFC, stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  1947 to 1951

  N4680V - TALOA (TRANSOCEAN AIR LINES) (USA)

1947

Purchased.

1951

Damaged beyond repair in unknown circumstances.

Last edited: 15/05/2019