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Commando 42-107373

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107373

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27060

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU700

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  May 1944 to April 1946

  42-107373 - USAAF (USA)

30 May 1944

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

21 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

18 October 1944

Received major damage at RAF Bahrain in a taxi accident.

Pilot: 2nd Lt Charles R. Brumagim (survived, but died 4 months later flying Commando 42-96746 in China)

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Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 11/05/2020