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]