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.