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