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Commando 42-107322

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107322

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27009

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU649

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  May 1944 to March 1946

  42-107322 - USAAF (USA)


4 May 1944

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

8 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

11 September 1944

Received major damage at RAF Barrackpore, Bengal, India in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Lt James D. Madole (pictured, survived)

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  March 1946 to unknown date

  ????? - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)


31 March 1946

Purchased.

1948

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 22/09/2019