Commando 42-3654

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3654

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26787

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU427

FATE: Broken up

  January 1944 to February 1944

  42-3654 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

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January 1944

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

  February 1944 to October 1945

  42-3654 - USAAF (USA)

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5 February 1944

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

17 February 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

2 October 1944

Received major damage in Maiduguri, Nigeria in a landing accident.

Pilot: Louis H. McKenzie (survived and retired as a USAF Lt Col)

23 July 1945

Assigned to Gore Field, MT.

  October 1945 to May 1948

  42-3654 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

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15 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  May 1948 to February 1949

  42-3654 - USAF (USA)

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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.