Commando 42-96562

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96562

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30224

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU760

FATE: Written off

  July 1944 to November 1945

  42-96562 - USAAF (USA)

4 July 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

Assigned to Rosecrans Field, MO, probably with the 1^st Operational Training Unit (1 OTU).

  November 1945 to October 1949

  42-96562 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

8 November 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Walnut Ridge AAF, AR.

  October 1949 to December 1949

  N50790 - SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION (USA)

October 1949

Purchased from RFC.

  December 1949 to February 1951

  PP-XCQ - LOIDE AEREO NACIONAL (BRAZIL)

30 December 1949

Purchased.

January 1950

Registered for temporary import (“passavante”).

  February 1951 to May 1959

  PP-LDJ - LOIDE AEREO NACIONAL (BRAZIL)

9 February 1951

Reregistered.

  May 1959 to August 1961

  PP-BLF - TABA (TRANSPORTES AEREOS BANDEIRANTES) (BRAZIL)

29 May 1959

Transferred. [Transportes Aereos Bandeirantes had merged into Loide in 1951! Did it still operate under that brand as late as 1961?]

  August 1961 to June 1963

  PJ-AEC - NETHERLANDS ANTILLES AIR TRANSPORT (NETHERLANDS ANTILLES)

12 August 1961

Registered.

  June 1963 to 1965

  PJ-AEC - TRANSPORTES AEREOS URUGUAYOS (URUGUAY)

June 1963

Leased.

August 1963

Caught carrying contraband in Bragado, Argentina. Impounded by Argentinian authorities.

October 1965

Registration cancelled.

  1965 to September 1966

  CP-786 - PRIVATE (BOLIVIA)

1965

Purchased by Roberto Vasquez, Bolivia.

15 September 1966

Damaged beyond repair near Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia in unknown circumstances (no fatalities).