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Commando 42-107333

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107333

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27020

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU660

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  June 1944 to October 1945

  42-107333 - USAAF (USA)

2 June 1944

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

4 June 1944

Assigned to ATC North Atlantic Wing.

13 August 1945

Assigned to Presque Isle AAF, ME.

  October 1945 to May 1948

  42-107333 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

1 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Bush Field, GA.

  May 1948 to January 1949

  42-107333 - USAF (USA)

21 May 1948

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

12 July 1948

Sent for reclamation at Bush Field, GA.

20 January 1949

Reclamation completed at Bush Field, GA.

Last edited: 23/09/2019