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Commando 42-107315

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107315

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27002

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU642

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1944 to March 1945

  42-107315 - USAAF (USA)

29 May 1944

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

3 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

25 October 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division.

15 March 1945

Damaged beyond repair in the China-Burma-India theatre of operations in a crash landing following an engine failure.

Pilot: Walter B. Stafford

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.