Commando 42-60984
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60984
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26859
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU499
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
Unknown date to April 1944
42-60984 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
Unknown date
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
April 1944 to November 1944
42-60984 - USAAF (USA)
4 April 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
14 June 1944
Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 2nd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.
31 October 1944
Moved with 2nd Air Transport Squadron to Dergaon, Assam, India.
15 November 1944
Damaged beyond repair 10 km southwest of Dergaon, Assam, India in a takeoff accident (fatalities).
Pilot: Ralph H. Wakefield
17 November 1944
Condemned for salvage.