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Commando 42-101117

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101117

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30572

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1108

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  September 1944 to January 1946

  42-101117 - USAAF (USA)


21 September 1944

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

26 October 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division, 1252nd AAF Base Unit based at Casablanca Anfa, French Morocco.

30 December 1944

Damaged at Cairo Payne Field, Egypt in a taxi accident.

Pilot: W. L. Grafton

2 April 1945

Damaged at Marrakech Menara, French Morocco in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Frank Eichman

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

7 January 1946

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

Last edited: 22/08/2020