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Commando 42-107337

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107337

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27024

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU664

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  May 1944 to October 1945

  42-107337 - USAAF (USA)


22 May 1944

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

17 June 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

27 July 1945

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

  October 1945 to June 1948

  42-107337 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)


15 October 1945

Transferred to RFC and stored at Ontario AAF, CA.

  June 1948 to early 1949

  42-107337 - USAF (USA)


17 June 1948

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

Assigned to the San Bernardino Air Materiel Area based at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

18 June 1948

Sent for reclamation at San Bernardino AFB, CA.

Early 1949

Reclamation completed at San Bernardino AFB, CA.