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Commando 42-3598

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3598

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26731

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU371

FATE: Broken up

  January 1944 to January 1946

  42-3598 - USAAF (USA)


4 January 1944

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

18 January 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

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

2 July 1945

Damaged in Chabua, Assam, India in a ground accident with two other Commandos while parked. The other aircraft were 42-107342 and 43-47349.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 30/03/2019