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Commando 42-60974

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60974

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26849

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU489

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to March 1944

  42-60974 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  March 1944 to March 1945

  42-60974 - USAAF (USA)


31 March 1944

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

2 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

20 March 1945

Damaged beyond repair by a tornado, and condemned for salvage.