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Commando 42-101057

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101057

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30512

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1048

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944 to July 1946

  42-101057 - USAAF (USA)


13 September 1944

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

22 october 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division1264th AAF Base Unit based at Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

30 March 1945

Damaged at RAF Castel Benito, Libya in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Maj. Gilbert A. Carey

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

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

Last edited: 12/08/2020