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Commando 42-107314

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107314

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27001

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU641

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1944 to September 1944

  42-107314 - USAAF (USA)

9 May 1944

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

7 July 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

15 October 1944

Destroyed near Shingbwiyang, Burma after crew bailed out.

Pilot: Elmer L. Crawford

16 September 1944

Condemned for salvage. [dates discrepancy, maybe typo 16 October 1944?]