Commando 42-60996
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60996
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26871
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU511
FATE: Unknown
Operational Record
April 1944 to August 1946
42-60996 - USAAF (USA)
5 April 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
19 April 1944
Assigned to ATC North African Wing.
1 May 1944
Assigned to 20th Air Force, XX Bomber Command, 3rd Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), based at RAF Kalaikunda, Bengal, India.
November 1944
Moved with 3rd Air Transport Squadron to Dergaon, Assam, India.
14 January 1945
Moved with 3rd Air Transport Squadron to Sookerating, Assam, India.
21 February 1945
Received major damage in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a belly landing.
Pilot: Altus B. Goodgame (survived)
Unknown date
Assigned to Chungking, Sichuan, China.
1 August 1946
Excluded from inventory. [Possibly by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission]