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Commando 42-3606

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3606

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26739

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU379

FATE: Written off

  December 1943 to June 1944

  42-3606 - USAAF (USA)


30 December 1943

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

5 January 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

5 June 1944

Damaged beyond repair after an engine failure at an unknown location.

Pilot: Loren B. Weidman

26 June 1944

Condemned for salvage.