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Commando 42-3566

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-30-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3566

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26699

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU339

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1943 to August 1944

  42-3566 - USAAF (USA)


1 December 1943

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

14 December 1943

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

25 August 1944

Damaged beyond repair in a fatal accident in Chengkung, Yunnan, China.

Pilot: Clarence J. Liller Jr (survived)

Condemned for salvage.