Commando 42-61011

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

  April 1944 to April 1946

  42-61011 - USAAF (USA)

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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

  42-61011 - INDIAN GOVERNMENT (INDIA)

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10 April 1946

Purchased.

  Unknown date to July 1956

  N????? - WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMPORT EXPORT COMPANY (USA)

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Unknown date

Purchased.

May 1956

Ferried from India to Miami, FL.

  July 1956 to September 1956

  PP-LEB - LOIDE AEREO NACIONAL (BRAZIL)

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14 July 1956

Purchased.

  September 1956 to 1957

  PP-ASL - SADIA TRANSPORTES AEREOS (BRAZIL)

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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

  1957 to 1961

  PP-ASL - REAL TRANSPORTES AEREOS (BRAZIL)

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1957

Probably on lease from Sadia.

  1961 to 1962

  PP-ASL - SADIA TRANSPORTES AEREOS (BRAZIL)

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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)

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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Certificate of airworthiness expired, withdrawn from use and stored in Sao Paulo, Brazil.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?]