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Commando 42-61024

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61024

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26899

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU539

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  April 1944 to July 1944

  42-61024 - USAAF (USA)


13 April 1944

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

11 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, based at Station 11, Missamari, Assam, India.

9 July 1944

Damaged beyond repair in the China-Burma-India theatre in an accident following an engine failure.

Pilot: John M. Lear

18 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.