Commando 42-3589
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3589
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26722
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU362
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
December 1943 to January 1944
42-3589 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
18 December 1943
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
January 1944 to August 1945
42-3589 - USAAF (USA)
11 January 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
6 February 1944
Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.
2 August 1945
Damaged beyond repair in a belly landing in Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Pilot: Gerald O. Snyder
Condemned for salvage, “washout”.
[AB also quotes this Commando as condemned for salvage on 15 January 1946 in Chungking, Sichuan, China]