Commando 42-60991

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60991

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26866

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU506

FATE: Broken up

  April 1944 to April 1946

  42-60991 - USAAF (USA)

1 April 1944

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

3 May 1944

Assigned to 20^th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 1^st Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.

17 April 1945

Damaged in Barrackpore, Bengal, India in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Melvin C. Livers (survived, went on to fight in Korea & Vietnam and retired a USAF Lt. Col.)

Unknown date

Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.

  April 1946 to August 1965

  ????? - ROCAF (REPUBLIC OF CHINA AIR FORCE) (CHINA)

15 April 1946

Purchased.

Probably escaped to Taiwan circa 1949, and registered 001 or 066.

  August 1965 to February 1974

  B-928 - AIR AMERICA (USA)

August 1965

Purchased by Air Asia Co. Ltd. to be operated by Air America.

16 August 1965

Registered.

27 October 1965

Assigned to Saigon, South Vietnam.

November 1965

Assigned to contract AID-430-1092 for use out of Saigon, South Vietnam.

5 January 1966

Landing gear damaged at Quang Ngai, South Vietnam after undershooting the runway.

27 January 1966

Repaired and returned to service.

21 February 1967

Received a minor hole in the fuselage by customer laborers, while parked at Nha Trang, South Vietnam.

6 July 1967

Engine fire in the power section at Dong Ha, South Vietnam, extinguished.

20 December 1967

Right wing tip damaged in Saigon, South Vietnam, after taxying into C-47 “559” on the Air America ramp. Repaired.

20 March 1968

Damaged at Quang Ngai, South Vietnam after swerving left during the landing roll and hitting a road grader. Repaired.

May 1968

Assigned to contract AID/VN-23 for use out of Saigon, South Vietnam.

Temporarily assigned to contract AID/VN-41 in June and August 1969.

16 December 1969

Damaged at Cho Reo, South Vietnam after being hit by a World Relief Commission Land Rover while parked. Repaired.

29 December 1970

Seen in Hong Kong.

1-31 July 1971

Assigned to contract AID/VN-100 for use out of Saigon, South Vietnam.

Based in Saigon, South Vietnam until at least 6 January 1972

7 March 1972

Withdrawn from use and stored in Tainan, Taiwan. [date quoted as 7 March 1973 by PL, 7 March 1972 by JB]

February 1974

Broken up in Tainan, Taiwan.