Commando 42-3681
Aircraft Identification
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
Operational Record
February 1944 to October 1945
42-3681 - USAAF (USA)
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)
8 October 1945
Transferred to RFC and stored at Bush Field, GA.
1949 to April 1955
April 1955 to May 1955 November 1955 to November 1963
N75338 - RIDDLE AIRLINES (USA)
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)
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Fate unknown: either sold prior to December 1967 [AB] or withdrawn from use 1968 [PL].
Last edited: 21/06/2019