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Commando 42-61017

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61017

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26892

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU532

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  March 1944 to April 1946

  42-61017 - USAAF (USA)


27 March 1944

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

1 May 1944

Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.

5 February 1945

Received major damage at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: C. D. Mason

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Withdrawn from use.