Commando 42-107359

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107359

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27046

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU686

FATE: Broken up

  May 1944 to 1952

  42-107359 - USAAF (USA)

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30 May 1944

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

1 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

  1952 to October 1953

  PP-VCJ (I) - VARIG (BRAZIL)

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1952

Purchased

22 September 1952

Permit obtained to ferry the aircraft from Cairo Payne Field, Egypt to Venice, Italy for overhaul at Officine Aeronavali.

[Maybe not ever taken up by VARIG?]

  October 1953 to February 1959

  PP-VCJ (I) - LOIDE AEREO NACIONAL (BRAZIL)

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30 October 1953

Registered.

19 November 1953

Delivered.

  February 1959 to May 1969

  PP-LDP - LOIDE AEREO NACIONAL (BRAZIL)

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23 February 1959

Reregistered.

17 July 1964

Withdrawn from use and stored at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont, Brazil.

May 1969

Broken up at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont, Brazil.