Commando 42-60958

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60958

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26833

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU473

FATE: Written off

  Unknown date to February 1944

  42-60958 - 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 1945

  42-60958 - USAAF (USA)

16 February 1944

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

17 March 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing, then immediately reassigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

16 April 1944

Received minor damage at RAF El Fasher, Sudan in a ground accident.

Pilot: Lloyd V. Bryden [erroneously noted as Lloyd W. Bryden]

15 April 1945

Damaged beyond repair, and condemned for salvage, “washout”.