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Commando 42-101063

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101063

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30518

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1054

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  September 1944 to March 1946

  42-101063 - USAAF (USA)


15 September 1944

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

Assigned to the Air Transport Command at Baer Field, IN.

Apparently stayed within the Continental USA.

16 October 1944

Surveyed at Bergstrom AAF, TX. [suggests this Commando may have been somehow damaged]

30 January 1946

Surveyed again.

20 March 1946

Reclamation completed at Bergstrom AAF, TX.