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Commando 42-107326

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107326

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27013

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU653

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  May 1944 to April 1946

  42-107326 - USAAF (USA)


5 May 1944

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

15 June 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to 1262nd AAF Base Unit, RAF Castel Benito, Tripoli, Libya.

18 February 1945

Damaged at RAF Castel Benito, Tripoli, Libya in a ground accident.

Pilot: Maurice C. Andries (survived, retired a USAF Lt Col)

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Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 23/09/2019