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Commando 42-3593

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3593

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26726

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU366

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1943 to January 1944

  42-3593 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


23 December 1943

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

  January 1944 to October 1944

  42-3593 - USAAF (USA)


17 January 1944

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

11 February 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based at Station 6, Chabua, Assam, India.

4 July 1944

Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Donald E. Garner

25 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair in a landing accident in Paoshan, Yunnan, China.

Pilot: Joseph V. Furlong

31 October 1944

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 07/02/2019