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Commando 42-60981

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60981

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26856

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU496

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  April 1944 to August 1946

  42-60981 - 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 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 3rd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.

November 1944

Moved with 3rd Air Transport Squadron to Dergaon, Assam, India.

14 January 1945

Moved with 3rd Air Transport Squadron to Sookerating, Assam, India.

4 February 1945

Received minor damage in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Cecil E. West (survived)

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

1 August 1946

Excluded from inventory. [Possibly by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission]

Last edited: 07/07/2019