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Commando 42-61056

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61056

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26931

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU571

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  April 1944 to January 1946

  42-61056 - USAAF (USA)


13 April 1944

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

6 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

31 January 1946

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

Last edited: 04/09/2019