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Commando 42-3643

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3643

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26776

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU416

FATE: Written off

Operational record

  January 1944 to March 1945

  42-3643 - USAAF (USA)


17 January 1944

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

6 February 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

15 March 1945

Damaged beyond repair in Mangshi, Yunnan, China in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: Henry C. Harding

Condemned for salvage, “washout”.