Commando 42-107359
Aircraft Identification
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
Operational Record
May 1944 to 1952
42-107359 - USAAF (USA)
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)
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)
30 October 1953
Registered.
19 November 1953
Delivered.
February 1959 to May 1969
PP-LDP - LOIDE AEREO NACIONAL (BRAZIL)
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Withdrawn from use and stored at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont, Brazil.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.
Last edited: 06/10/2019