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Commando 42-107288

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107288

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26975

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU615

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1944 to September 1944

  42-107288 - USAAF (USA)


May 1944

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

21 May 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

Unknown date

Probably assigned to ATC India China Wing (or Division).

14 August 1944

Damaged beyond repair at RAF Barrackpore, Bengal, India in a landing accident.

13 September 1944

Condemned for salvage.