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Commando 42-3670

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3670

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26803

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU443

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  February 1944 to October 1945

  42-3670 - USAAF (USA)


10 February 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

5 March 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

20 June 1945

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  October 1945 to May 1948

  42-3670 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


14 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  May 1948 to February 1949

  42-3670 - 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: 07/09/2019