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Commando 42-61062

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61062

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26937

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU577

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  April 1944 to 1956

  42-61062 - USAAF (USA)


15 April 1944

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

22 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.

  1956 to unknown date

  N9843F - PRIVATE (USA)


1956

Purchased and stored.