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Commando 42-107353

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107353

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27040

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU680

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  May 1944 to April 1946

  42-107353 - USAAF (USA)

29 May 1944

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

12 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

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Withdrawn from use.

[According to AB, this Commando has been reported to later become N3961C, typically a Resort Airlines registration, but no trace of this can be found]

Last edited: 01/10/2019