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Commando 42-3591

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3591

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26724

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU364

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1943 to January 1944

  42-3591 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


20 December 1943

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  January 1944 to May 1944

  42-3591 - USAAF (USA)


31 January 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

6 February 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based at Station 9, Mohanbari, Assam, India.

3 May 1944

Went missing near Mohanbari, Assam, India.

Pilot: Herman R. Dittmer

20 May 1944

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 07/02/2019