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Commando 42-60946

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60946

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26821

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU461

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  March 1944 to November 1944

  42-60946 - USAAF (USA)


24 March 1944

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

16 April 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

28 November 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Charles R. Criswell (survived and later retired as a USAF Lt Col)

29 November 1944

Condemned for salvage.