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Commando 42-61001

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61001

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26876

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU516

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  Unknown date to March 1944

  42-61001 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  March 1944 to April 1946

  42-61001 - USAAF (USA)


13 March 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

15 April 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

30 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to unknown date

  ????? - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)


15 April 1946

Purchased.

1948

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 01/08/2019