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Commando 42-107299

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107299

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26986

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU626

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1944 to October 1944

  42-107299 - USAAF (USA)

8 May 1944

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

4 July 1944

Probably assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.

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Moved with the 2nd Air Transport Squadron to Luliang, Yunnan, China. [TBC]

19 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Hsinching, Sichuan, China in a fatal accident.

Pilot: 1st Lt Domenic A. Tomaro (killed, pictured)

20 October 1944

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.

 

Right: 42-107299 on the production line in Buffalo, NY.
Photo credit: USAF

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Last edited: 12/09/2019