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Commando 42-61064

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61064

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26939

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU579

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  April 1944 to September 1944

  42-61064 - USAAF (USA)


24 April 1944

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

17 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

1 September 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre.

Pilot: Lt Jack S. Kelly (killed)

30 September 1944

Condemned for salvage.