Commando 42-60998
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-60998
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26873
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU513
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
Unknown date to March 1944
42-60998 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
Unknown date
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
March 1944 to December 1944
42-60998 - USAAF (USA)
4 March 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
21 March 1944
Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, then to ATC North African Wing the same day. [!]
17 June 1944
Received major damage at Cairo Payne Field, Egypt in a taxi accident.
Pilot: Howard W. Menke (survived)
20 December 1944
Damaged beyond repair, and condemned for salvage.