Commando 42-107294

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107294

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26981

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU621

FATE: Unknown

  April 1944 to September 1947

  42-107294 - USAAF (USA)

April 1944

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

Unknown date

Assigned to the 4202^nd AAF Base Unit, Syracuse AAB, NY.

24 October 1944

Received major damage at Syracuse AAB, NY in a ground fire.

Pilot: Lt Alyn Harrison Jr (survived)

1945

Converted with Pratt & Whitney R-2800-C engines and used as the C-46H prototype.

Probably later converted back to C-46A standard.

  September 1947 to unknown date

  42-107294 - USAF (USA)

18 September 1947

Transferred.

Unknown date

Modified by Curtiss-Wright for USAF.

Unknown date

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

12 April 1958

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

11 July 1960

Sent for reclamation at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

Fate unknown.

Right: obsolete 42-107294 seen in Oakland, CA on 21 December 1956. As suggested by the other Commandos visible in the background, Oakland was then a major maintenance station for the type.
Photo credit: Bill Larkins / Wikimedia Commons