Commando 42-61072
Aircraft Identification
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
Operational Record
Unknown date to April 1944
42-61072 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
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)
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 1337th AAF Base Unit, Sookerating, Assam, India.
6 January 1945
Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 11099]
Pilot: 2nd Lt Ray C. Taylor (pictured)
8 January 1945
Condemned for salvage.