Commando 42-101081
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-50-CU Commando
USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101081
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30536
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1072
FATE: Unknown
Operational Record
September 1944 to July 1946
42-101081 - USAAF (USA)
13 September 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
30 october 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Division, 1252nd AAF Base Unit based at Casablanca Anfa, French Morocco.
31 March 1945
Damaged in Benghazi, Libya in a taxi accident.
Pilot: James L. New
Unknown date
Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.
23 July 1946
Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.