Commando 42-61006

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61006

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26881

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU521

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

Unknown date to March 1944

42-61006 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

Unknown date

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

March 1944 to September 1947

42-61006 - USAAF (USA)

15 March 1944

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

12 April 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

3 June 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

September 1947 to unknown date

42-61006 - USAF (USA)

Uncertainty exists around the whereabouts of this Commando between July 1946 and the mid-1950's.

18 September 1947

Probably reinstated at some point, and transferred to USAF.

Possibly received the obsolete type designation ZC-46A.

Unknown date to November 1956

N????? - AAXICO (USA)

Unknown date

Purchased by Howard J. Korth, President of AAXICO, to be operated by his airline.

November 1956 to unknown date

HK-852-X - AEROCONDOR (COLOMBIA)

November 1956

Purchased, and assigned a temporary registration.

Unknown date to February 1957

HK-852 - AEROCONDOR (COLOMBIA)

Unknown date

Reregistered.

February 1957 to unknown date

HK-609 - LIA (LINEAS INTERAMERICANAS AEREAS) (COLOMBIA)

1 February 1957

Purchased. [probably assigned registration HK-609-X temporarily]

Unknown date to 1958

????? - COMPANIA MERCANTIL (CHILE?)

Unknown date

Purchased. [only according to AB]

1958 to 1963

CC-CNE-0482 - TRANSA CHILE (CHILE)

1958

Purchased and christened “Punta Arenas”. [quoted as CC-CNE-482 by PL]

1963

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 02/08/2019