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Commando 42-61035

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61035

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26910

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU550

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  April 1944 to February 1946

  42-61035 - USAAF (USA)


18 April 1944

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

21 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

27 May 1944

Received major damage in Kano, Nigeria in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Morton J. Rehbock

1 October 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

6 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.