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Commando 42-61031

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61031

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26906

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU546

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  April 1944 to July 1945

  42-61031 - USAAF (USA)


3 April 1944

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

4 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

9 June 1945

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

30 July 1945

Damaged beyond repair at Tripoli Mellaha AB, Libya in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Robert I. Campbell Jr

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.