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Commando 42-107305

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107305

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26992

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU632

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  May 1944 to February 1946

  42-107305 - USAAF (USA)


18 May 1944

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

26 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, Assam Wing, based at Station 6, Chabua, Assam, India.

11 August 1944

Received major damage in Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Lawrence Kimsey

6 March 1945

Received minor damage in Chengkung, Yunnan, China in a crash landing.

Pilot: James E. Noe

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

8 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.