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Commando 42-3662

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3662

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26795

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU435

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  January 1944 to February 1944

  42-3662 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


January 1944

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

  February 1944 to March 1946

  42-3662 - USAAF (USA)


5 February 1944

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

3 March 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

1 July 1945

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  March 1946 to May 1948

  42-3662 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


4 March 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Bush Field, GA.

  May 1948 to November 1948

  42-3662 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

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

12 July 1948

Sent for reclamation.

4 November 1948

Reclamation completed.

Last edited: 19/05/2019