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Commando 42-61075

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61075

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26950

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU590

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-61075 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  April 1944 to July 1945

  42-61075 - USAAF (USA)


25 April 1944

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

25 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing (or Division).

16 July 1945

Destroyed near Yangyi, Yunnan, China [district of Paoshan] after the crew bailed out.

Pilot: Robert H. Lineberger (survived)

18 July 1945

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 07/09/2019