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Commando 42-96788

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-96788

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30450

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU986

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  September 1944 to September 1947

  42-96788 - USAAF (USA)


September 1944

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

  September 1947 to 1959

  42-96788 - USAF (USA)


18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.

Unknown date

Assigned to the 2577th Air Force Reserve Training Center, based at Brooks AFB, TX.

23 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 February 1961

  N9339R - L. B. SMITH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)


1959

Purchased from USAF.

29 July 1960

Registered.

  February 1961 to February 1962

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


27 February 1961

Purchased.

  February 1962 to June 1969

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


February 1962

Transferred as part of the merger of NAB into VASP.

15 July 1962

Certificate of airworthiness expired.

Withdrawn from use and stored at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont, Brazil.

June 1969

Broken up at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont, Brazil.