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Commando 42-61039

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61039

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26914

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU554

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  April 1944 to July 1944

  42-61039 - USAAF (USA)

19 April 1944

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

1 June 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, based at Station 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.

29 June 1944

Went missing 23km east of Chanyi, Yunnan, China (4/4 fatalities).

Pilot: 1st Lt Edmund E. O’Fallon

10 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 25/08/2019