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Commando 42-101053

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-50-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101053

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30508

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1044

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  September 1944 to January 1946

  42-101053 - USAAF (USA)


13 September 1944

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

19 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

14 May 1945

Received major damage in Luliang, Yunnan, China in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Arthur W. Rodbro

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.