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Commando 42-3592

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3592

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26725

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU365

FATE: Broken up

  December 1943 to February 1946

  42-3592 - USAAF (USA)

22 December 1943

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

29 December 1943

Departed the USA for Karachi, Sindh, India.

Unknown date

Probably assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

10 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

[this aircraft is quoted by JB & RZ as being US Navy Bu.No.39538]

Last edited: 07/02/2019