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Commando 42-61016

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61016

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26891

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU531

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  April 1944 to January 1946

  42-61016 - USAAF (USA)


7 April 1944

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

29 April 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

10 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to 1333rd AAF Base Unit, Chabua, Assam, India.

9 July 1945

Damaged in Chabua, Assam, India in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Robert E. Browman (survived)

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

10 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.