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Commando 42-61030

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61030

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26905

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU545

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  April 1944 to July 1945

  42-61030 - USAAF (USA)


13 April 1944

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

17 May 1944

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

25 July 1945

Damaged beyond repair 3 miles northeast of Sahmaw, Burma (fatalities).

Pilot: 1st Lt Lee E. Webb (killed)

26 July 1945

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.