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Commando 42-3601

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3601

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26734

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU374

FATE: Written off

  December 1943 to July 1944

  42-3601 - USAAF (USA)


29 December 1943

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

9 January 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

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

14 July 1944

Damaged beyond repair in a fatal crash in Kunming, Yunnan, China.

Pilot: Herbert W. McNeil (apparently survived)

17 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.