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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