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Commando 42-3574

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3574

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26707

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU347

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1943 to July 1944

  42-3574 - USAAF (USA)


10 December 1943

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

13 December 1943

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

29 June 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 6119]

5 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.