Commando 42-3629

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3629

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26762

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU402

FATE: Written off

  January 1944 to March 1945

  42-3629 - USAAF (USA)

7 January 1944

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

24 February 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

24 March 1945

Destroyed near the Pan Saung Pass, Burma after the crew bailed out following an engine failure (no fatalities). [MACR 13373]

Pilot: Gordon G. Wendell

En route, an engine failed, forcing the crew to abandon the Commando that crashed in a mountainous region located near the Pan Saung Pass (Pangseng Pass), at the border between India and Burma. The aircraft was destroyed while all crew members survived.

25 March 1945

Condemned for salvage.