Commando 42-101048

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-101048

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 30503

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU1039

FATE: Written off

  September 1944 to unknown date

  42-101048 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

8 September 1944

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  Unknown date to November 1944

  42-101048 - USAAF (USA)

Unknown date

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

Assigned to the 4^th Combat Cargo Group, 13^th Combat Cargo Squadron based at Bowman Field, KY.

12 November 1944

Ferried from Morrison Field, FL towards Sylhet, Bengal, India.

Crew:
Capt. Samuel S. Musser, Pilot
1^st Lt. Thomas J. Dluge, Copilot
Sgt. Maitland M. Bird, Crew Chief
SSgt. Charles F. Socha, Radio Operator

26 November 1944

Damaged beyond repair in RAF Khormaksar, Aden Colony in a takeoff accident (probably 5/14, including the 4 crewmembers above).

The Commando was ferrying from the USA to India at the time of the accident.

Condemned for salvage by the Ferry Command while in the 9^th Air Force area.