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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.