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Commando 42-3616

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3616

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26749

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU389

FATE: Written off

  January 1944 to October 1944

  42-3616 - USAAF (USA)


3 January 1944

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

3 February 1944

Assigned to 1st Combat Cargo Group, 3rd Combat Cargo Squadron, based in Assam, India.

19 August 1944

Went missing in the north of the Assam Valley, India. [MACR 7595]

Pilot: David A. Devine

7 October 1944

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.

Last edited: 07/07/2019