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Commando 42-61087

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61087

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26962

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU602

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-61087 - 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

  42-61087 - USAAF (USA)


28 April 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

12 June 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing (or Division).

2 June 1945

Received major damage in Luliang, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Lt Samuel M. Atkinson (survived, pictured right next to his brother, a USAAF pilot as well)

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 09/09/2019