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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”.