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Commando 42-3673

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3673

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26806

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU446

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  March 1944 to June 1944

  42-3673 - USAAF (USA)


1 March 1944

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

21 March 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 11, Missamari, Assam, India.

24 May 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Missamari, Assam, India in a takeoff accident.

Pilot: John J. McNelly (survived)

26 June 1944

Condemned for salvage.