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Commando 42-101123

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101123

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30578

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1114

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  September 1944 to January 1949

  42-101123 - USAAF (USA)


26 September 1944

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

Probably assigned to the 2nd Combat Cargo Group based at Syracuse AAB, NY.

1 November 1944

Assigned to Brisbane Eagle Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Unknown date

Assigned to Nichols Field, Philippines.

21 April 1947

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

19 January 1949

Reclamation completed, possibly at Clark AB, Philippines.

Last edited: 23/08/2020