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Commando 42-3599

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3599

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26732

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU372

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1943 to January 1944

  42-3599 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

16 December 1943

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

  January 1944 to June 1945

  42-3599 - USAAF (USA)

11 January 1944

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

3 February 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

23 June 1945

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 31/03/2019