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Commando 42-101171

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101171

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30626

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1162

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  October 1944 to April 1946

  42-101171 - USAAF (USA)

4 October 1944

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

8 December 1944

Ferried through Karachi, Sindh, India.

Probably assigned to the 10th Air Force, 4th Combat Cargo Group.

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to unknown date

  42-101171 - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

15 April 1946

Purchased.

1948

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 27/08/2020