Commando 42-96756

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96756

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30418

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU954

FATE: Broken up

  September 1944 to September 1947

  42-96756 - USAAF (USA)

September 1944

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

Assigned to 561^st AAF Base Unit, based at Rosecrans Field, MO, probably with the 1^st Operational Training Unit (1 OTU), C Squadron.

23 November 1944

Damaged at Rosecrans Field, MO in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Carl W. Armbrust

  September 1947 to 1959

  42-96756 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.

Unknown date

Converted to TC-46A.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 2584^th Air Force Reserve Training Center, based at Memphis AFB, TN.

16 April 1951

Received minor damage at Memphis AFB, TN in a taxi accident while parked.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 2346^th Air Force Reserve Training Center, based at Hamilton AFB, CA.

4 October 1957

Assigned to the Arizona Aircraft Storage Squadron and stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

29 January 1958

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

  1959 to August 1960

  N9344R - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)

1959

Purchased from USAF.

  August 1960 to February 1962

  PP-NME - NAB (NAVEGACAO AEREA BRASILEIRA) (BRAZIL)

17 August 1960

Purchased.

  February 1962 to May 1969

  PP-NME - VASP (VIACAO AEREA SAO PAULO) (BRAZIL)

February 1962

Transferred as part of the merger of NAB into VASP.

1962

Damaged in an accident [no info]. Repaired.

21 June 1964

Damaged in an accident [no info]. Repaired.

1968

Damaged at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont, Brazil. Subsequently withdrawn from use.

May 1969

Broken up at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont, Brazil.