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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