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Commando 42-3675

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3675

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26808

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU448

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  March 1944 to November 1944

  42-3675 - USAAF (USA)


11 March 1944

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

10 April 1944

Assigned to ATC India China Wing.

31 October 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a takeoff accident (0/4 fatalities).

Pilot: Lawrence W. Gold

1 November 1944

Condemned for salvage.