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Withdrawn from use.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