Commando 42-61049

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61049

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26924

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU564

FATE: Broken up

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-61049 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

Unknown date

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  April 1944 to January 1946

  42-61049 - USAAF (USA)

17 April 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY .

30 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

14 June 1944

Probably assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2^nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India. [assumption based on dates, to be confirmed]

31 October 1944

Moved with 2^nd Air Transport Squadron to Dergaon, Assam, India. [TBC]

November 1944

Moved with 2^nd Air Transport Squadron to Luliang, Yunnan, China. [TBC]

Mid-1945

Assigned to ATC India China Division. [TBC]

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.