Commando 42-3642

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3642

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26775

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU415

FATE: Written off

  January 1944 to December 1944

  42-3642 - USAAF (USA)

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31 January 1944

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

28 February 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

25 December 1944

Damaged beyond repair near Maiduguri, Nigeria after a mid-air explosion caused the airframe to fail in flight (all occupants killed).

Pilot: Lt Joe B. Crane

Condemned for salvage.

29 December 1944

Crew declared dead.