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Commando 42-3611

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3611

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26744

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU384

FATE: Written off

  January 1944 to May 1944

  42-3611 - 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, based at Station 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.

28 April 1944

Damaged beyond repair in a takeoff accident from in Sookerating, Assam, India (no fatalities).

Pilot: Lyle D. Crawford (survived)

2 May 1944

Condemned for salvage.