Commando 42-61054
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61054
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26929
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU569
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
Unknown date to April 1944
42-61054 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
Unknown date
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
April 1944 to October 1944
42-61054 - USAAF (USA)
17 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, 2nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.
8 September 1944
Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre.
Pilot: David D. Hayden
3 October 1944
Condemned for salvage.
Last edited: 06/09/2019