Commando 42-61085

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-41-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-61085

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26960

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU600

FATE: Broken up

April 1944 to February 1946

42-61085 - USAAF (USA)

27 April 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

17 May 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

28 December 1944

Received major damage in Missamari, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Ralph E. Poesnecker (survived)

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

8 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.