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Commando 42-96591

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96591

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30253

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU789

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1944 to July 1946

  42-96591 - USAAF (USA)

1 July 1944

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

Assigned to Air Transport Command, based at Baer Field, IN.

  July 1946 to 1957

  42-96591 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

25 July 1946

Transferred to RFC and stored at Kirtland Field, NM.

  1957 to 1958

  CU-P153 - EXPRESO AEREO INTERAMERICANO (CUBA)

1957

Purchased from RFC. [listed by Aerobernie in the fleet of Aerovias Q for the duration of its stay in Cuba]

  1958 to 1961

  CU-C153 - EXPRESO AEREO INTERAMERICANO (CUBA)

1958

Reregistered.

  1961 to September 1961

  N3926C - UNKNOWN (USA)

1961

Purchased by an unknown private owner.

  September 1961 to 1965

  YV-C-BNA - AGUILAS VENEZOLANAS (VENEZUELA)

September 1961

Purchased.

  1965 to unknown date

  YV-C-BNA - TACA DE VENEZUELA (VENEZUELA)

1965

Purchased.

1968

Withdrawn from use.