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Commando 42-3631

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3631

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26764

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU404

FATE: Written off

Operational record

  January 1944 to September 1944

  42-3631 - USAAF (USA)


7 January 1944

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

3 February 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.

11 April 1944

Received major damage in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a taxi accident.

Pilot: Robert J. Meyers

14 July 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Chanyi, Yunnan, China in a landing accident.

Pilot: Lewis D. Osborne [probably Lt Lewis Fraser Osborne, survived]

6 September 1944

Condemned for salvage.