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Commando 42-61079

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61079

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26954

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU594

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  Unknown date to May 1944

  42-61079 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  May 1944 to October 1945

  42-61079 - USAAF (USA)


4 May 1944

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

18 May 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

22 June 1945

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  October 1945 to May 1948

  42-61079 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


24 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  May 1948 to February 1949

  42-61079 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

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

Unknown date

Assigned to the San Bernardino Air Materiel Area based at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

15 June 1948

Sent for reclamation at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

18 February 1949

Reclamation completed at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

Last edited: 07/09/2019