Commando 42-107368

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107368

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27055

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU695

FATE: Broken up

  May 1944 to 1949

  42-107368 - USAAF (USA)

26 May 1944

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

17 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division, 1250^th AAF Base Unit, Casablanca Anfa, French Morocco.

12 May 1945

Damaged at Casablanca Anfa, French Morocco in a taxi accident.

Pilot: George K. Miller

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

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

  1949 to September 1951

  SU-AFV - SAIDE (SERVICES AERIENS INTERNATIONAUX D'EGYPTE) (EGYPT)

1949

Purchased.

  September 1951 to January 1972

  PP-VCC - VARIG (BRAZIL)

25 September 1951

Purchased.

30 September 1951

Delivered to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Transaero de Cuba [?]. [other sources here say “delivered to Cuba” (JB)]

18 April 1958

Damaged in Itanhaem, Brazil in a belly landing.

15 January 1962

Damaged at an unknown location in an accident after takeoff.

The Commando hit a concrete post on takeoff, returned to the airfield and performed a belly landing.

August 1962

Converted to Super 46C.

12 June 1964

Certificate of airworthiness expired.

7 January 1972

Registration cancelled.

Right: PP-VCC at Sao Paulo, June 1958.
Photo credit: Reginald Rowe / AirlineFan.com

Below: The late PP-VCC wearing the new VARIG paint scheme.
Photo credit: unknown / Pinterest

  January 1972

  N355CC - FLIGHT LEASE INC. (USA)

January 1972

Purchased.

  January 1972 to 1972

  N355CC - CAROLINA AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (USA)

January 1972

Purchased.

  1972 to April 1976

  N355CC - CLARKS AERIAL SERVICE INC. (USA)

1972

Purchased and converted to sprayer.

April 1976

Parted out to help rebuild 44-78678, and broken up.