Commando 42-107303
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107303
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26990
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU630
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
May 1944 to August 1944
42-107303 - USAAF (USA)
10 May 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY .
4 July 1944
Assigned to ATC India China Division.
15 August 1944
Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a taxi accident.
Pilot: Lodovico S. Christofero
21 August 1944
Damaged beyond repair somewhere in the China-Burma-India theatre in a takeoff accident. [quoted as being in Chabua by JB]
Pilot: Joseph P. Nardi Jr
22 August 1944
Condemned for salvage.