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Commando 42-107345

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107345

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27032

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU672

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  May 1944 to April 1946

  42-107345 - USAAF (USA)


24 May 1944

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

26 June 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

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Withdrawn from use.

[This Commando is sometimes quoted later as XA-NUD, but this is very unlikely. To make its way from the Chinese Air Force to Mexico would have been very complicated. XA-NUD is bound to be 42-96772]

Last edited: 31/07/2020