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Commando 42-60967

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60967

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26842

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU482

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  Unknown date to February 1944

  42-60967 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  February 1944 to January 1946

  42-60967 - USAAF (USA)


19 February 1944

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

Assigned to ATC Domestic Wing, 3rd Ferrying Group, based at Romulus AAF, MI.

24 February 1944

Received major damage in Baltimore, MD in a landing accident following a mechanical failure.

Pilot: Charles R. Wiley

10 April 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

21 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Sometime in 1944

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

30 December 1944

Damaged in Cairo Payne Field, Egypt in a taxi accident while parked.

7 January 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 26/06/2019