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.