Commando 42-3648
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3648
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26781
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU421
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
January 1944 to February 1944
42-3648 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
January 1944
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
February 1944 to May 1945
42-3648 - USAAF (USA)
7 February 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
5 March 1944
Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.
2 November 1944
Received major damage at RAF Wadi Seidna, Sudan in a taxi accident.
Pilot: John R. Pountnay (survived)
30 April 1945
Damaged beyond repair at RAF Wadi Seidna, Sudan in a takeoff accident.
Pilot: Wendell Phillips
1 May 1945
Condemned for salvage.