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Commando 42-61047

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61047

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26922

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU562

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  April 1944 to July 1944

  42-61047 - USAAF (USA)


4 April 1944

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

6 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, based at Station 9, Mohanbari, Assam, India.

7 May 1944

Destroyed in Mohanbari, Assam, India in a ground explosion.

7 July 1944

Condemned for salvage. [date uncertain, illegible according to AB]