Commando 42-3654
Aircraft Identification
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
Operational Record
January 1944 to February 1944
42-3654 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
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)
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)
15 October 1945
Transferred to RFC and stored at Ontario AAF, CA.
May 1948 to February 1949
42-3654 - 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: 18/05/2019