Commando 42-96577
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96577
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30239
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU775
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
July 1944 to September 1947
42-96577 - USAAF (USA)
July 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
September 1947 to January 1965
42-96577 - USAF (USA)
18 September 1947
Transferred.
Unknown date
Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.
Unknown date
Assigned to the 2343rd Air Force Reserve Training Center, based in Portland, OR.
13 May 1953
Received minor damage in Portland, OR in a landing accident.
Pilot: M. S. Goodman
14 October 1954
Received minor damage in Portland, OR in a ground collision during taxi.
Pilot: Arnold G. Letrud
Unknown date
Assigned to the 2346th Air Force Reserve Training Center, based at Paine Field, WA.
18 April 1958
Assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.
Unknown date
Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.
January 1965 to 1968
N32224 - C-46 PARTS INC. (USA)
26 January 1965
Purchased less engines from USAF. Total airframe time 6,165 hours.
1971 to 1994
CP-900 - SAB (SERVICIOS AEREOS BOLIVIANOS) (BOLIVIA)
1971
Leased from SANIA.
31 August 1972
Received major demage at La Paz El Alto, Bolivia in a takeoff accident (no fatalities).
Subsequently stored at La Paz El Alto, Bolivia.
By February 1977
Repaired, returned to service and christened “Junia”.
Right: CP-900 of Servicios Aereos Bolivianos at La Paz El Alto, Bolivia on 2 December 1977.
Photo credit: Christian Volpati / Wikimedia Commons
Below: Fourteen years later, and still going: CP-900 at La Paz El Alto, 17 May 1991.
Photo credit: Charles Osta / Airliners.net
1994 to 2005
CP-900 - AIR BENI (BOLIVIA)
1994
Purchased.
ca 2005
Broken up.
2006
Cockpit section offered for sale. Location of the rest of the airframe unknown.