Commando 42-3605

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3605

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26738

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU378

FATE: Written off

  December 1943

  42-3605 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

December 1943

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

  December 1943 to May 1944

  42-3605 - USAAF (USA)

30 December 1943

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

9 January 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

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

2 May 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 4653]

Pilot: Glen F. Norell (survived, went on to fight in Korea and retired a Major)

11 May 1944

Condemned for salvage.