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Commando 42-107283

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107283

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26970

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU610

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  April 1944 to November 1944

  42-107283 - USAAF (USA)


25 April 1944

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

27 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 11, Missamari, Assam, India.

25 November 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Chanyi, Yunnan, China in a crash (fatalities).

Pilot: Capt Orville R. Hubbard (killed)

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 10/09/2019