Commando 42-60975
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60975
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26850
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU490
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
Unknown date to April 1944
42-60975 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
Unknown date
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
April 1944 to February 1945
42-60975 - USAAF (USA)
10 April 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
11 May 1944
Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.
27 December 1944
Received major damage in Mohanbari, Assam, India in a landing accident.
Pilot: John W. Schimonitz (survived)
9 February 1945
Condemned for salvage.