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Commando 42-3607

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3607

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26740

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU380

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  December 1943

  42-3607 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


14 December 1943

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

  December 1943 to June 1944

  42-3607 - USAAF (USA)


30 December 1943

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

13 February 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 9, Mohanbari, Assam, India.

13 May 1944

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre.

Pilot: John C. Lawrence

2 June 1944

Condemned for salvage.