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Commando 42-3610

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3610

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26743

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU383

FATE: Written off

  January 1944 to February 1944

  42-3610 - USAAF (USA)


3 January 1944

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

8 January 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

5 February 1944

Damaged beyond repair in a fatal crash south of Ledo, Assam, India.

Pilot: 2nd Lt Theodore A. Romanek (killed, pictured)

7 February 1944

Condemned for salvage.