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Commando 42-107369

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107369

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27056

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU696

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  June 1944 to April 1946

  42-107369 - USAAF (USA)

1 June 1944

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

3 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

30 January 1945

Received major damage damage in Karachi, Sindh, India in an accident after takeoff.

Pilot: Robert H. Davis

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Withdrawn from use.