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Commando 42-3635

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3635

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26768

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU408

FATE: Written off

Operational record

  January 1944 to October 1944

  42-3635 - USAAF (USA)


7 January 1944

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

14 January 1944

Departed the USA for India.

Unknown date

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

16 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Hsinching, Sichuan, China [nowadays Xinjin].

Pilot: Martin Horwitz

17 October 1944

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.