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Commando 42-60953

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60953

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26828

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU468

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to February 1944

  42-60953 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  February 1944 to April 1944

  42-60953 - USAAF (USA)


28 February 1944

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

21 March 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 19, Barrackpore, Bengal, India.

29 March 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Barrackpore, Bengal, India in a takeoff accident (1 fatality).

Pilot: 2nd Lt Arlington R. Stoner (killed)

3 April 1944

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 24/06/2019