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Commando 42-107365

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107365

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27052

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU692

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1944 to October 1944

  42-107365 - USAAF (USA)


30 May 1944

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

13 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

22 August 1944

Damaged beyond repair at RAF Habbaniya, Iraq in a landing accident.

Pilot: James R. Hundley Jr (survived)

10 October 1944

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.