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Commando 42-61050

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61050

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26925

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU565

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  April 1944 to July 1946

  42-61050 - USAAF (USA)


25 April 1944

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

25 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.