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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.