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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.