Commando 42-107339

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107339

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27026

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU666

FATE: Broken up

  May 1944 to January 1946

  42-107339 - USAAF (USA)

11 May 1944

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

7 July 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Division, based at Station 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.

9 July 1945

Received major damage in Sookerating, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Elden Zachariasen (survived)

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

20 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

[The 22 June 1945 accident in the American River attributed to this Commando actually belongs to 42-107399]