Commando 42-60981

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

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

November 1944

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

14 January 1945

Moved with 3^rd 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]