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Commando 42-3641

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3641

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26774

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU414

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  January 1944

  42-3641 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

8 January 1944

Destroyed in Clarence Center, NY after the crew bailed out following a mechanical failure (0/8 fatalities). [date also reported as 9 January 1944]

Pilot: Raymond F. Bloszies

Enroute, an engine failed and tore lose. The crew decided to abandon the aircraft and bailed out. The Commando crashed in a prairie and was destroyed by impact forces while all crew were uninjured. The aircraft was probably conducting either a production test flight or its initial delivery flight out of nearby Buffalo, NY.

  January 1944

  42-3641 - USAAF (USA)

12 January 1944

Wreckage delivered by truck to the Rome Air Depot, NY for survey. Condemned for salvage.