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Commando 42-3678

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3678

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26811

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU451

FATE: Broken up

Operational Record

  March 1944 to February 1946

  42-3678 - USAAF (USA)


23 March 1944

Delivered.

17 April 1944

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

13 April 1945

Received major damage in Mohanbari, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Raymond W. Luce (survived and retired a USAF Lieutenant Colonel after flying in Korea & Vietnam)

Unknown date

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

8 February 1946

Condemned for salvage by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.