(NONE)

Serial No.:  42-40683 Model: B-24D-90-CO


Data Sheet Aircraft Record Card Maintenance Crew Mission Record Photos


 

DATA SHEET

 

 

No.

041

 

 

 

 


SERIAL NO.:


42-40683

MOST POPULAR NOSE ART NAME:


(NONE)

 

 

 

 

MODEL:

B-24D-90-CO

MFR:

Consolidated-San Diego

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTRACTOR'S NO.:

1760

 

 

 

 

INITIAL MFG DATE:

 

MFG COMPLETION DATE:

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST FLIGHT DATE:

 

MOD CENTER DATE:

04/23/1943

 

 

MOD CENTER PLACE:

Topeka

USAAF ACCEPTANCE DATE:

04/21/1943

 

 

TO STAGING AREA DATE:

05/05/1943

STAGING PLACE:

Topeka

OVERSEAS FLIGHT DATE:

06/05/1943

DEPARTURE PLACE:

San Francisco, CA

 

 

 

 

OVERSEAS ARRIVAL DATE:

06/11/1943

DESTINATION:

Amberly Field, Brisbane, AUS

 

 

 

 

MOD COMPLETED

 

 

 

OVERSEAS:

Nose turret

OVERSEAS MOD PLACE:

Townsville

 

 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT:

380/528

ASSIGNMENT

 

 

 

   DATE:

10/19/1943

STATION:

Fenton

 

 

 

 

WHERE

Nabire, Manokwari,

FIRST MISSION:

11/21/1943

    (1ST MISSION):

Sorong

 

 

 

 

NO. OF MISSIONS:

1 AU

TERMINATION DATE:

11/21/1943

 

 

 

 

WHY TERMINATED:

Crash Landing, Out of Gas, Manokwari Mission

WHERE TERMINATED:

Fenton, NT, Australia

 

 

 

 

 

STRICKEN OFF CHARGE:

11/22/1943

WHERE REMOVED:

AFMSC

             NOTES:               Transferred from 43rd Bomb Group, 403rd Squadron; it was called THE COLOSSAL FOSSIL there.

May 19, 2022: Email from Bob Livingstone: these notes [below] come directly from the AAF aircraft record card. The dates are the dates the signals containing this information were received in Washington for the clerks to process, which could be the cause for the different dates we have listed above and these:

May 19, 1943 ARR HAD for D1 mod; May 28, 1943 DEL modified [PROJECT NO.96054-R]
April 21, 1943 ACP AAF; April 23, 1943 Tucson; April 24, 1943 Long Bch;
May 5, 1943 Topeka; 05/06/43 LEFT; May 22, 1943 LEFT A; 
November 21, 1943 LEFT CON AFMSC; November 22, 1943 CON ACC NC
 

AIRCRAFT RECORD CARD

 
Nose Art: (NONE)
Serial No.: 42-40683
Model: B-24D-90-CO
 


 


MAINTENANCE CREW

 
Nose Art: (NONE)
Serial No.: 42-40683
Model: B-24D-90-CO

 

 

SSN

Rank

Name

Crew Chief(s):

 

 

Not Available in Current Records

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SSN

Rank

Name

Mechanic(s):

 

 

Not Available in Current Records

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                    Notes:            

 


MISSION RECORD


 

(NONE)

Serial No.:  Number Model: B-24D-90-CO

 

No pictures currently available for this aircraft while with the 380th. It only flew one mission with the 380th and was destroyed when it crash landed due to being out of gas, after a mission to Manokwari on its first mission, on 21 Nov 1943.


Starboard (Right) Side
This photo is of 42-40683 when it was with the 43rd Bomb Group (5th AF), 403rd Bomb Squadron, then named "THE COLOSSAL FOSSIL"

Source:  http://www.b24bestweb.com/colossalfossil-the1.htm, Contributor - Jean-Louis Delattre.


Port (Left) Side
This photo is of 42-40683 when it was with the 43rd Bomb Group (5th AF), 403rd Bomb Squadron, then named "THE COLOSSAL FOSSIL"

Source:  http://www.b24bestweb.com/colossalfossil-the2.htm, Contributor - Bob Liviingstone.

 

Last updated:  19 May 2022