Commando 42-107316

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

  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 20^th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 3^rd 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: 1^st Lt Robert W. Haake (pictured, survived)

November 1944

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

14 January 1945

Moved with 3^rd 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.