Commando 42-96671

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96671

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30333

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU869

FATE: Unknown

  July 1944 to October 1945

  42-96671 - USAAF (USA)

23 July 1944

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

Assigned to Air Transport Command Domestic Wing, 4^th Ferrying Group based at Berry Field, TN.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 3^rd Operational Training Unit (3 OTU), based at Reno AAF, NV.

5 January 1945

Damaged at Reno AAF, NV in a ground accident while parked.

  October 1945 to unknown date

  42-96671 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

28 October 1945

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

  Unknown date to August 1961

  N2074A - INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS INC. (USA)

Unknown date

Purchased from RFC. [1960 according to PL, but incompatible with 1956 incident below]

29 March 1956

Damaged in Burbank, CA by a fire on the ground.

  August 1961

  N2074A - WINGS INC. (USA)

August 1961

Purchased.

  August 1961 to November 1963

  N2074A - SKY VAN AIRWAYS (USA)

August 1961

Leased for periods from Wings Inc.

Right: N2074A in Sky Van colors.
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  November 1963

  N2074A - PRIVATE (USA)

29 November 1963

Leased to Marshall M. Landy of Miami, FL in order to be sub-leased by Air France, but deal cancelled.

  November 1963 to December 1963

  N2074A - ATLANTA AIRWAYS (USA)

November 1963

Sub-leased from Marshall M. Landy.

  December 1963 to February 1964

  N2074A - LUFTHANSA CARGO (WEST GERMANY)

4 December 1963

Operated by Atlanta Airways for Lufthansa Cargo Services, probably in Lufthansa colors.

Flew newspaper daily between Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France (New York Times and Stars & Stripes).

February 1964

Contract ended.

  February 1964 to 1966

  N2074A - PRIVATE (USA)

By January 1964

Purchased by A. J. Blackman of Los Angeles, CA. [dates discrepancy]

  1966 to unknown date

  N2074A - INTERSOUTH INC. (USA)

1966

Purchased. [1968 according to PL]

7 May 1970

Unconfirmed rumor of an accident in the Argentinian Andes.

1970

Withdrawn from use and stored, registration cancelled.