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Commando 42-60978

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60978

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26853

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU493

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  April 1944 to February 1946

  42-60978 - USAAF (USA)


18 April 1944

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

30 May 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

14 June 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 6, Chabua, Assam, India.

3 April 1945

Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Ralph D. Snowden

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

8 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.