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Commando 42-61015

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61015

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26890

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU530

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  May 1944 to January 1946

  42-61015 - USAAF (USA)


11 May 1944

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

4 July 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

18 March 1945

Received minor damage in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Jack F. Irwin

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

21 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 04/08/2019