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Commando 42-107387

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107387

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27074

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU714

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  June 1944 to December 1944

  42-107387 - USAAF (USA)


19 June 1944

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

24 July 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

2 December 1944

Went missing near Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China. [MACR 10087]

Pilot: 1st Lt. Reid T. Woodward

The Commando disappeared during a night cargo flight over the Hump.

5 December 1944

Condemned for salvage.