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Commando 42-60962

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60962

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26837

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU477

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to February 1944

  42-60962 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  February 1944 to November 1944

  42-60962 - USAAF (USA)


19 February 1944

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

10 March 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 19, Barrackpore, Bengal, India.

3 May 1944

Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Richard L. Wilson

7 November 1944

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 25/06/2019