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Commando 42-61084

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61084

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26959

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU599

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-61084 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  April 1944 to August 1944

  42-61084 - USAAF (USA)


26 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.

2 July 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Chengkung, Yunnan, China in a taxi accident.

31 August 1944

Condemned for salvage.