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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.