Commando 42-107290

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107290

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26977

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU617

FATE: Written off

  May 1944 to March 1946

  42-107290 - USAAF (USA)

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4 May 1944

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

28 May 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

1 July 1945

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  March 1946 to 1949

  42-107290 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

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26 March 1946

Transferred to RFC, stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  1949 to 1950

  N67969 - CHARLES E. MATHEWS & CO. (USA)

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1949

Purchased from RFC.

  1950 to 1954

  CB-45 - AEROLINEAS CAMBA (BOLIVIA)

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1950

Purchased by Fernando Guilarte to be operated by Aerolineas Camba.

17 July 1952

Damaged in Cochabamba, Bolivia in an accident. Repaired.

  1954 to October 1956

  CP-545 - FRIGORIFICO COOPERATIVO LOS ANDES (BOLIVIA)

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1954

Purchased.

23 October 1956

Damaged beyond repair at La Paz El Alto, Bolivia in unknown circumstances.

[This Commando is sometimes quoted as wearing registration CB-45 until it was written off in 1956]