Commando 42-3628

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3628

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26761

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU401

FATE: Broken up

  January 1944 to January 1946

  42-3628 - USAAF (USA)

7 January 1944

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

9 February 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

8 June 1944

Condemned for salvage.

2 July 1944

Reinstated.

3 February 1945

Received major damage in Gaya, Bihar, India in a bird strike.

Pilot: Lee L. Willey

25 June 1945

Received major damage somewhere in India in a landing accident.

Pilot: John V. Shaver

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

23 January 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.