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Commando 42-60959

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60959

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26834

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU474

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  March 1944 to September 1945

  42-60959 - USAAF (USA)


24 March 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

1 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

29 September 1945

Condemned for salvage. [AB quotes it as “CR T”: crashed on takeoff?]