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Commando 42-107390

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107390

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27077

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU717

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  June 1944 to August 1944

  42-107390 - USAAF (USA)


5 June 1944

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

23 July 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

15 August 1944

Destroyed in Chabua, Assam, India in a ground fire while parked.

19 August 1944

Condemned for salvage.