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