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Commando 42-60987

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60987

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26862

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU502

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  April 1944 to July 1945

  42-60987 - USAAF (USA)


5 April 1944

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

21 April 1944

Assigned to ATC North African Wing.

1 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, based at Station 6, Chabua, Assam, India.

19 May 1944

Received minor damage in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a ground accident.

Pilot: Lt. Felix A. Wojcik (survived)

23 July 1945

Received severe damage in Chengkung, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Rodney D. Marchetti

26 July 1945

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.