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Commando 42-3573

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3573

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26706

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU346

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  December 1943 to January 1946

  42-3573 - USAAF (USA)


5 December 1943

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

14 December 1943

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

21 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.