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Commando 42-3656

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3656

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26789

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU429

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  January 1944 to February 1944

  42-3656 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


January 1944

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

  February 1944 to November 1945

  42-3656 - USAAF (USA)


7 February 1944

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

3 March 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

12 July 1945

Assigned to Gore Field, MT.

  November 1945 to unknown date

  42-3656 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


14 November 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Ontario AAF, CA.