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Commando 42-96655

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96655

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30317

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU853

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  July 1944 to October 1945

  42-96655 - USAAF (USA)

29 July 1944

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

1 August 1944

Assigned to ATC North Atlantic Division.

12 June 1945

Assigned to Pope Field, NC.

Probably used for paratroop & aerial resupply training as part of I Troop Carrier Command.

  October 1945 to May 1948

  42-96655 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

8 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and probably stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  May 1948 to February 1949

  42-96655 - USAF (USA)

21 May 1948

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

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

18 June 1948

Sent for reclamation at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

18 February 1949

Reclamation completed at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

Last edited: 11/02/2020