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Commando 42-3653

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3653

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26786

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU426

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  January 1944 to September 1945

  42-3653 - USAAF (USA)

26 January 1944

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

30 January 1944

Assigned to ATC North Atlantic Wing.

4 March 1944

Received major damage in Greenland in a taxi accident.

22 January 1945

Assigned to Grenier Field, NH.

  September 1945 to unknown date

  42-3653 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

26 September 1945

Transferred to RFC, stored at Bush Field, GA.

Last edited: 18/05/2019