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Commando 42-60980

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60980

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26855

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU495

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  Unknown date to February 1944

  42-60980 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

Unknown date

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

  February 1944 to July 1946

  42-60980 - USAAF (USA)

28 February 1944

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

26 March 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

16 March 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing. [dates discrepancy]

Unknown date

Assigned to Cairo Payne Field, Egypt.

23 July 1946

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.