Commando 42-3658

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-36-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3658

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26791

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU431

FATE: Written off

  February 1944 to March 1944

  42-3658 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)

February 1944

Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.

  March 1944 to July 1944

  42-3658 - USAAF (USA)

1 March 1944

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.

17 March 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

2 July 1944

Damaged beyond repair near Ledo, Assam, India in a fatal accident.

Pilot: 1^st Lt Theodore H. "Ted" Ring (killed, pictured)

The Commando was operating a flight between Kunming, Yunnan, China and Chabrea, India [unidentified location]. It disappeared in severe a rain storm. The wreckage was found near Ledo a few days later.

6 July 1944

Condemned for salvage.