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Commando 42-107311

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107311

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26998

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU638

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  May 1944 to October 1945

  42-107311 - USAAF (USA)


23 May 1944

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

26 May 1944

Assigned to ATC Caribbean Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  October 1945 to May 1948

  42-107311 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


18 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Bush Field, GA.

  May 1948 to January 1949

  42-107311 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

Returned to USAF service under the obsolete type designation ZC-46A.

24 June 1948

Assigned to the Warner Robins Air Materiel Area based at Robins AFB, GA.

18 July 1948

Sent for reclamation at Robins AFB, GA.

7 January 1949

Reclamation completed at Robins AFB, GA.