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Commando 42-60986

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60986

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26861

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU501

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  March 1944 to September 1945

  42-60986 - USAAF (USA)


8 March 1944

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

2 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

29 September 1945

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.