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Commando 42-107340

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107340

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27027

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU667

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  May 1944 to April 1946

  42-107340 - USAAF (USA)

20 May 1944

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

26 June 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

14 July 1945

Received major damage in Villa Cisneros, Spanish Sahara in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Kenneth S. Symbol

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Withdrawn from use.