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Commando 42-3613

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3613

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26746

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU386

FATE: Written off

  January 1944 to August 1944

  42-3613 - USAAF (USA)


3 January 1944

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 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.

27 July 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Sookerating, Assam, India in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Ralph J. Baker

17 August 1944

Condemned for salvage.