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Commando 42-61002

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61002

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26877

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU517

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  Unknown date to March 1944

  42-61002 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  March 1944 to July 1946

  42-61002 - USAAF (USA)


13 March 1944

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

11 April 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

9 June 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

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