Commando 42-61072

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61072

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26947

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU587

FATE: Written off

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-61072 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

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Unknown date

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

  April 1944 to January 1945

  42-61072 - USAAF (USA)

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24 April 1944

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

21 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, based at Station 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.

26 June 1944

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

August 1944

Assigned to 1337^th AAF Base Unit, Sookerating, Assam, India.

6 January 1945

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 11099]

Pilot: 2^nd Lt Ray C. Taylor (pictured)

8 January 1945

Condemned for salvage.