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Commando 42-60983

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60983

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26858

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU498

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  Unknown date to March 1944

  42-60983 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

Unknown date

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

  March 1944 to February 1946

  42-60983 - USAAF (USA)

6 March 1944

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

11 March 1944

Assigned to Patterson Field, OH.

  February 1946 to March 1948

  42-60983 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

5 February 1946

Transferred to RFC and stored at Bush Field, GA.

  March 1948 to 1949

  42-60983 - USAF (USA)

9 March 1948

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

5 May 1948

Assigned to Langley AFB, VA.

6 April 1949

Sent for reclamation.

1949

Reclamation completed.

Last edited: 24/07/2019