Commando 42-3570

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3570

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26703

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU343

FATE: Broken up

  December 1943 to January 1946

  42-3570 - USAAF (USA)

5 December 1943

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

15 December 1943

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 1^st Transport Group, 6^th Transport Squadron based in Chabua, Assam, India. [logged as Station 6]

12 January 1944

Received major damage in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Lt Richard E. Kimble (survived, killed in action 8 months later)

22 June 1945

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

Pilot: John D. Welch

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

21 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.