Commando 42-60965

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60965

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26840

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU480

FATE: Written off

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-60965 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

Unknown date

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

  April 1944 to May 1945

  42-60965 - USAAF (USA)

7 April 1944

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

12 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

9 May 1945

Destroyed 70 km south of Mitu, Yunnan, China after the crew bailed out following an engine failure in bad weather. [erroneously quoted as 19 May 1945]

Pilot: Patrick U. Dunlop (survived)

10 May 1945

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.