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Commando 42-107316

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107316

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27003

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU643

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  May 1944 to January 1946

  42-107316 - USAAF (USA)


8 May 1944

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

4 July 1944

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

14 July 1944

Received minor damage in Jorhat, Assam, India in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: 1st Lt Robert W. Haake (pictured, survived)

November 1944

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

14 January 1945

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

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 18/09/2019