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Commando 42-101096

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101096

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30551

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1087

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  September 1944 to January 1946

  42-101096 - USAAF (USA)


25 September 1944

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

7 December 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

18 September 1945

Received major damage at New Delhi Willingdon, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: William D. Antrim Jr.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

15 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 18/08/2020