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Commando 42-60948

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60948

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26823

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU463

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  February 1944 to January 1946

  42-60948 - USAAF (USA)


February 1944

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

25 February 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 3, Tejgaon, Bengal, India.

20 July 1944

Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Frank C. Barron (survived)

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

20 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.