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Commando 42-60982

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60982

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26857

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU497

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-60982 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

Unknown date

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

  April 1944 to April 1945

  42-60982 - USAAF (USA)

3 April 1944

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

2 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

30 April 1945

Damaged beyond repair, and condemned for salvage. [possibly destroyed on the ground by the tornado that struck Karachi on 20 March 1945]