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Commando 42-3608

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3608

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26741

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU381

FATE: Written off

  January 1944 to September 1945

  42-3608 - USAAF (USA)


3 January 1944

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

15 January 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

9 September 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Missamari, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Vernon E. Thorp

14 September 1945

Condemned for salvage.