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Commando 42-60976

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60976

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26851

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU491

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  Unknown date to March 1944

  42-60976 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


Unknown date

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

  March 1944 to April 1946

  42-60976 - USAAF (USA)


27 March 1944

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

2 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to 4th Combat Cargo Group, 16th Combat Cargo Squadron.

7 May 1945

Received major damage in Chittagong, Bengal, India in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Francis A. Gannon

June 1945

Moved to Namponmao, Burma with the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron.

September 1945

Moved to Ledo, Assam, India with the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron.

October 1945

Moved to Namponmao, Burma with the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron.

November 1945

Moved to RAF Ondal, Bengal, India with the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron.

Early 1946

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to unknown date

  ????? - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)


15 April 1946

Purchased.

1948

Withdrawn from use.

Last edited: 16/09/2020