Commando 42-3609
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3609
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26742
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU382
FATE: Written off
December 1943 to August 1944
42-3609 - USAAF (USA)
30 December 1943
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
10 January 1944
Departed the USA for India.
Unknown date
Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 9, Mohanbari, Assam, India.
25 August 1944
Damaged beyond repair in a crash-landing for unknown reasons 10 km east of Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Pilot: Lt Merlin A. Johnson (killed)
Condemned for salvage.