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Commando 42-61025

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61025

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26900

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU540

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  April 1944 to June 1944

  42-61025 - USAAF (USA)


24 April 1944

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

2 June 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

17 June 1944

Damaged beyond repair in the Gulf of Kutch off Navlakhi, Gujarat, India in a forced landing due to fuel exhaustion.

Pilot: Richard L. Snow (survived)

21 June 1944

Condemned for salvage.