Commando 42-3579

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3579

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26712

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU352

FATE: Broken up

  December 1943 to February 1946

  42-3579 - USAAF (USA)

7 December 1943

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

25 March 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

4 May 1945

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

Pilot: Warren E. Will (survived)

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

10 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

[this Commando is quoted by PL & JB as going instead to the US Marine Corps as Bu.No.39512 on 17 January 1944 - unlikely given the aircraft's USAAF history during the war]