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Commando 42-107313

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107313

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27000

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU640

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1944 to February 1945

  42-107313 - USAAF (USA)


8 May 1944

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

9 July 1944

Probably assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 3rd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.

November 1944

Moved with the 3rd Air Transport Squadron to Dergaon, Assam, India.

14 January 1945

Moved with the 3rd Air Transport Squadron to Sookerating, Assam, India.

25 February 1945

Damaged beyond repair 30 km from Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China in a crash and destroyed by fire.

Pilot: William V. Thayer

26 February 1945

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 17/09/2019