Commando 42-61051

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61051

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26926

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU566

FATE: Written off

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-61051 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

Unknown date

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  April 1944 to April 1945

  42-61051 - USAAF (USA)

18 April 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY .

30 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

14 June 1944

Probably assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2^nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.

31 October 1944

Moved with 2^nd Air Transport Squadron to Dergaon, Assam, India.

November 1944

Moved with 2^nd Air Transport Squadron to Luliang, Yunnan, China.

25 January 1945

Received major damage in Sookerating, Assam, India in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Ted J. Waggy (pictured right, survived)

Mid-1945

Assigned to ATC India China Division.

2 August 1945

Damaged beyond repair 1.5 km east of Sookerating, Assam, India in a crash landing.

Pilot: Rudy J. Swiestra (survived, later killed in the 1958 shootdown of a USAF C-130 over Armenia)

2 April 1945

Condemned for salvage. [date discrepancy – is it actually 2 August 1945?]