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Commando 42-107330

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107330

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27017

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU657

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  May 1944 to November 1945

  42-107330 - USAAF (USA)


23 May 1944

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

27 May 1944

Assigned to ATC Caribbean Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  November 1945 to May 1948

  42-107330 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


7 November 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Bush Field, GA.

  May 1948 to January 1949

  42-107330 - USAF (USA)


21 May 1948

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

23 June 1948

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

12 July 1948

Sent for reclamation at Robins AFB, GA.

20 January 1949

Reclamation completed at Robins AFB, GA.

Last edited: 23/09/2019