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Commando 42-3603

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3603

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26736

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU376

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  December 1943 to January 1944

  42-3603 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


17 December 1943

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

  January 1944 to February 1946

  42-3603 - USAAF (USA)


11 January 1944

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

5 February 1944

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

12 June 1944

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

Pilot: Hubert A. Cate

Unknown date

Assigned to 1337th AAF Base Unit, Sookerating, Assam, India.

22 March 1945

Damaged in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a ground accident while parked.

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

6 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.