Commando 42-60942

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60942

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26817

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU457

FATE: Written off

  February 1944 to December 1944

  42-60942 - USAAF (USA)

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21 February 1944

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

19 March 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

21 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.

31 October 1944

Reinstated.

9 December 1944

Destroyed at Myitkyina South Airfield, Burma in a mid-air explosion due to an onboard fire (5/5 fatalities).

Pilot: Ralph L. Martin

Condemned for salvage.