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Commando 42-61080

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61080

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26955

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU595

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  April 1944 to July 1944

  42-61080 - USAAF (USA)

25 April 1944

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

3 June 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

30 June 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Cairo Payne Field, Egypt in a crash-landing (no fatalities).

Pilot: John B. Cochran

1 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 08/09/2019