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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.