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Commando 42-61077

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61077

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26952

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU592

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-61077 - 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

  42-61077 - USAAF (USA)

17 April 1944

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

30 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

14 June 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 07/09/2019