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Commando 42-61008

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61008

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26883

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU523

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  April 1944 to January 1946

  42-61008 - USAAF (USA)

5 April 1944

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

19 April 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

4 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

20 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.