Commando 42-60971

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60971

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26846

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU486

FATE: Written off

  March 1944 to August 1944

  42-60971 - USAAF (USA)

28 March 1944

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

3 May 1944

Assigned to 20^th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 1^st Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.

12 August 1944

Went missing over Northeast India.

Pilot: 1^st Lt Richard S. Frank (killed)

The Commando was later found in a remote location near Nongkhlaw, Khasi States, India. All crew were confirmed dead.

1 June 1946

Excluded from inventory.