Commando 42-61038

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61038

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26913

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU553

FATE: Broken up

April 1944 to February 1946

42-61038 - USAAF (USA)

25 April 1944

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

31 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

3 August 1944

Received major damage in Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Loren B. Weidman

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

10 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.