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Commando 42-107302

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107302

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26989

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU629

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  May 1944 to February 1946

  42-107302 - USAAF (USA)


2 May 1944

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

25 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, based at Station 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.

30 June 1944

Received major damage in Karachi, Sindh, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Russell J. Fitch

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

7 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.