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Commando 42-61000

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61000

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26875

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU515

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to March 1944

  42-61000 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  March 1944 to October 1944

  42-61000 - USAAF (USA)


13 March 1944

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

11 April 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, based at Station 3, Tejgaon, Bengal, India.

11 June 1944

Received major damage in Barrackpore, Bengal, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Marvin Chapman Perry (survived)

26 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Luliang, Yunnan, China in a crash landing (fatalities).

Pilot: 1st Lt. George E. Bradfield (killed)

30 October 1944

Condemned for salvage.