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Commando 42-61074

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61074

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26949

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU589

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  April 1944 to April 1946

  42-61074 - USAAF (USA)


25 April 1944

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

Assigned to the 2nd Ferrying Group, 89th Ferrying Squadron.

5 May 1944

Received minor damage in Georgetown, British Guyana in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Gerald L. Nuss (survived)

20 June 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

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Withdrawn from use.