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Commando 42-61040

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61040

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26915

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU555

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  April 1944 to April 1946

  42-61040 - USAAF (USA)

13 April 1944

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

19 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

13 December 1944

Received major damage in Marrakech, French Morocco in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Donald W. Stewart

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Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 07/09/2019