Commando 42-60963
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60963
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26838
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU478
FATE: Unknown
Operational Record
Unknown date to February 1944
42-60963 - 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 1946
42-60963 - USAAF (USA)
22 February 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
12 March 1944
Assigned to ATC India China Wing.
22 May 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Wing, 1258th AAF Base Unit, Oran La Senia, French Algeria. [erroneously quoted by AAIR as Casablanca, French Morocco]
17 January 1945
Damaged at Cairo Payne Field, Egypt in a ground accident, probably an inadvertent gear retraction by ground crew.
Unknown date
Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.
30 November 1945
Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.
April 1946 to unknown date
????? - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)
15 April 1946
Purchased.
1948
Withdrawn from use.
Last edited: 25/06/2019