Commando 42-3681

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3681

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26814

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU454

FATE: Unknown

  February 1944 to October 1945

  42-3681 - USAAF (USA)

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4 February 1944

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

3 March 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

18 June 1944

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

Pilot: Robert E. Leever

24 July 1945

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  October 1945 to 1949

  42-3681 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

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8 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Bush Field, GA.

  1949

  N65879 - AMERICAN AIRMOTIVE CORPORATION (USA)

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1949

Purchased from RFC.

  1949 to April 1955

  HK-164 - AVIANCA (COLOMBIA)

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1949

Purchased.

  April 1955 to May 1955

  HK-164 - SALA AIRCRAFT SALES (COSTA RICA)

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29 April 1955

Purchased.

  May 1955

  N75338 - PRIVATE (USA)

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6 May 1955

Purchased by Irving Leslie Jones Jr.

  May 1955 to November 1955

  N75338 - PRIVATE (USA)

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6 May 1955

Purchased by Arthur V. Davis.

  November 1955 to November 1963

  N75338 - RIDDLE AIRLINES (USA)

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10 November 1955

Purchased.

18 February 1956

Certificate of airworthiness issued.

24 May 1962

Damaged at Tyndall AFB, FL after the landing gear failed during a crosswind landing. Repaired.

  November 1963 to unknown date

  N75338 - AIRLIFT INTERNATIONAL (USA)

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29 November 1963

Transferred as Riddle was renamed Airlift International.

Fate unknown: either sold prior to December 1967 [AB] or withdrawn from use 1968 [PL].