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Commando 42-101132

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101132

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30587

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1123

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  September 1944 to April 1945

  42-101132 - USAAF (USA)


30 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.

25 April 1945

Damaged beyond repair in the Southwest Pacific theatre in an accident.

Condemned for salvage.