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Commando 42-3652

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3652

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26785

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU425

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  January 1944

  42-3652 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


January 1944

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  January 1944 to November 1945

  42-3652 - USAAF (USA)


31 January 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

4 March 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

23 July 1945

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  November 1945 to May 1948

  42-3652 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


16 November 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  June 1948 to February 1949

  42-3652 - USAF (USA)


16 June 1948

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

18 February 1949

Reclamation completed, probably by the San Bernardino Air Materiel Area at San Bernardino AFB, CA.