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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.