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Commando 42-61005

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61005

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26880

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU520

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to March 1944

  42-61005 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  March 1944 to March 1945

  42-61005 - USAAF (USA)


21 March 1944

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

11 April 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

25 March 1945

Destroyed 50 miles southwest of Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China after the crew bailed out for unknown reasons (no fatalities).

Pilot: George H. Boring

Condemned for salvage.