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