Commando 42-60949
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60949
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26824
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU464
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
February 1944 to September 1944
42-60949 - USAAF (USA)
16 February 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY .
1 March 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Wing, 1264th AAF Base Unit, Cairo Payne Field, Egypt. [erroneously quoted by AAIR as Casablanca, French Morocco]]
16 September 1944
Damaged beyond repair near Suez, Egypt in a CFIT in the Ataqah mountain range (9 fatalities). [MACR 15942] [sometimes erroneously reported on 17 September 1944]
Pilot: 1st Lt Duane E. Carey (killed)
20 September 1944
Condemned for salvage.