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Commando 42-60993

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60993

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26868

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU508

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  Unknown date to April 1944

  42-60993 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

Unknown date

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  April 1944 to June 1944

  42-60993 - USAAF (USA)

6 April 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

14 May 1944

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

16 June 1944

Damaged beyond repair at Dinjan, Assam, India in a crash landing (fatalities).

Pilot: Stanley Sepura

During the descent into Chabua, the crew elected to divert to Dinjan for an unknown reason. The Commando later crash-landed in unknown circumstances in Dinjan, killing at least one crew member.

19 June 1944

Condemned for salvage.