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Commando 42-3674

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3674

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26807

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU447

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  February 1944

  42-3674 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)


February 1944

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

  February 1944 to June 1946

  42-3674 - USAAF (USA)


5 February 1944

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

21 February 1944

Assigned to ATC Central African Wing.

Unknown date

Probably assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

14 May 1945

Received severe damage in Luliang, Yunnan, China in a taxi accident.

Pilot: William M. Moss Jr

21 July 1945

Assigned to Morrison Field, FL.

26 March 1946

Sent for reclamation at the Middletown Air Materiel Area based at Olmsted AAF, PA.

20 June 1946

Reclamation completed at Olmsted AAF, PA.

Last edited: 26/05/2019