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Commando 42-60945

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60945

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26820

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU460

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-60945 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  April 1944 to July 1944

  42-60945 - USAAF (USA)


5 April 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

15 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 11, Missamari, Assam, India.

10 July 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Missamari, Assam, India in a takeoff accident (fatalities).

Pilot: 1st Lt Homer W. Ferguson (killed)

14 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 24/06/2019