Commando 42-107366

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107366

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27053

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU693

FATE: Preserved

  June 1944 to April 1946

  42-107366 - USAAF (USA)

5 June 1944

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

14 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to May 1961

  ????? - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

15 April 1946

Purchased.

1949

Evacuated to Taiwan.

  May 1961 to present

  91-1141 - JASDF (JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE) (JAPAN)

15 May 1961

Purchased.

Assigned to the 401^st Tactical Airlift Squadron based at Tachikawa AB, Japan.

8 June 1976

Withdrawn from use.

1980s

Preserved at the Gifu-Kakamigahara Air & Space Museum, Japan.

1990s

Used as gate guard at the Gifu-Kakamigahara Air & Space Museum , Japan.

Right: 91-1141, with its fluorescent red attributes faded by the elements, guarding the gate at Gifu AB, 16 January 2012.
Photo credit: Saipandamarukosu San / flyteam.jp

Below, left: 91-1141 landing at Gifu AB on 30 November 1975 – by then, it was one of the last active Commandos in the JASDF.
Photo credit: www.gonavy.jp

Below, right: 91-1141 climbing out gracefully from Iruma AB runway 17 on 19 March 1975.
Photo credit: AGC Det-F / www.gonavy.jp