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Commando 42-107329

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107329

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27016

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU656

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1944 to April 1945

  42-107329 - USAAF (USA)


8 May 1944

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

30 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

15 June 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

3 October 1944

Went missing, and condemned for salvage. [MACR 14403]

30 November 1944

Reinstated.

30 April 1945

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.

[No AAIR record for this Commando – did it really go missing and was recovered? Or is that a mistake?]