Commando 42-60997
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60997
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26872
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU512
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
Unknown date to April 1944
42-60997 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
Unknown date
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
April 1944 to July 1944
42-60997 - USAAF (USA)
12 April 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
9 May 1944
Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.
30 July 1944
Damaged beyond repair in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a belly landing.
Pilot: Charles B. Cox
31 July 1944
Condemned for salvage.