Commando 42-61011
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61011
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26886
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU526
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
April 1944 to April 1946
42-61011 - USAAF (USA)
5 April 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
12 May 1944
Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.
26 June 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Wing.
Unknown date
Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.
April 1946 to unknown date Unknown date to July 1956
N????? - WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMPORT EXPORT COMPANY (USA)
Unknown date
Purchased.
May 1956
Ferried from India to Miami, FL.
September 1956 to 1957
PP-ASL - SADIA TRANSPORTES AEREOS (BRAZIL)
18 September 1956
Purchased.
Right: PP-ASL seen at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont airport in August 1958. The titles are Sadia’s, but the paint scheme – probably green – is REAL’s. [check dates, discrepancy?]
Photo credit: Reginald Rowe / AirlineFan.com
1961 to 1962
PP-ASL - SADIA TRANSPORTES AEREOS (BRAZIL)
1961
Returned to Sadia shortly after REAL merged into VARIG.
Below: PP-ASL in Sadia’s own paint scheme, unknown date & location.
Photo credit: AviacaoComercial.net & HiveMiner.com
1962 to July 1967
PP-ASL - PARAENSE TRANSPORTES AEREOS (BRAZIL)
1962
Purchased.
15 August 1963
Certificate of airworthiness expired, withdrawn from use and stored in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
7 July 1967
Registration cancelled, broken up in Sao Paulo, Brazil. [but seen derelict there in 1968 according to AB?]
Last edited: 24/08/2019