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Commando 42-101101

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101101

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30556

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1092

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944 to July 1946

  42-101101 - USAAF (USA)


13 September 1944

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

20 October 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division, 1264th AAF Base Unit based at Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

31 December 1944

Damaged at Cairo Payne Field in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Arthur F. Fore

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

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

Last edited: 19/08/2020