Commando 42-60960
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60960
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26835
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU475
FATE: Broken up
Operational Record
April 1944 to January 1946
42-60960 - USAAF (USA)
6 April 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
2 June 1944
Assigned to ATC India China Wing.
6 January 1945
Received major damage somewhere in the China-Burma-India theatre in a taxi accident.
Pilot: Leo M. Husted
Unknown date
Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.
20 January 1946
Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.
[sometimes erroneously quoted as becoming PP-LDK, mixup with 41-12408 with similar CN 26535]
Last edited: 26/06/2019