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Commando 42-107370

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-107370

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 27057

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU697

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  May 1944 to July 1944

  42-107370 - USAAF (USA)


30 May 1944

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

17 July 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Division.

24 July 1944

Damaged beyond repair at Casablanca Anfa, French Morocco in an accident after takeoff.

Pilot: Seymour J. Kahn

16 August 1944

Condemned for salvage.