Commando 42-107317
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107317
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27004
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU644
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
May 1944 to October 1944
42-107317 - USAAF (USA)
8 May 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
6 July 1944
Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 3rd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.
21 July 1944
Received major damage in Jorhat, Assam, India in a landing accident.
Pilot: Napoleon Bertulis
23 October 1944
Damaged beyond repair in Luliang, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.
Pilot: William P. Muldrew
Condemned for salvage, “washout”.