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Commando 42-61078

Aircraft Identification

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

USAAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61078

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26953

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU593

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-61078 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

Unknown date

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

  April 1944 to April 1945

  42-61078 - USAAF (USA)

25 April 1944

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

29 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

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

1 April 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Dergaon, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Raymond C. Meyers (survived)

24 April 1945

Condemned for salvage.

 

Right: 41-61078 [or 41-61070?] somewhere in the China-Burma-India theatre.
Photo credit: www.worldwarphotos.info

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Last edited: 26/08/2020