Commando 42-60956
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60956
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26831
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU471
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
Unknown date to February 1944
42-60956 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
Unknown date
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
February 1944 to September 1945
42-60956 - USAAF (USA)
19 February 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
23 May 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Wing.
24 August 1945
Destroyed by fire 18 miles west of Marrakech, French Morocco following a belly landing.
Pilot: Sidney Elkes
10 September 1945
Condemned for salvage.
Right: 42-60956 on an Italian airfield.
Photo credit : USAF / aviadejavu.ru
