Commando 42-60964
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60964
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26839
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU479
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
Unknown date to April 1944
42-60964 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
Unknown date
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
April 1944 to July 1944
42-60964 - USAAF (USA)
5 April 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
30 May 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Wing.
14 June 1944
Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.
14 July 1944
Damaged beyond repair in Jorhat, Assam, India in a landing accident.
Pilot: Robert B. Alexander
7 October 1944
Condemned for salvage, “washout”.