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Commando 42-60970

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60970

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26845

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU485

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  February 1944 to July 1946

  42-60970 - USAAF (USA)


26 February 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

25 March 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

20 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

10 April 1945

Received minor damage in Abadan, Iran in a ground accident while parked.

23 July 1946

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

Last edited: 26/06/2019