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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Withdrawn from use.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