Commando 42-3682
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-36-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 42-3682
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26815
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU455
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
Unknown date to March 1944
42-3682 - CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION (USA)
Unknown date
Transferred from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY to the one in Louisville, KY.
March 1944 to July 1944
42-3682 - USAAF (USA)
25 March 1944
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Louisville, KY.
12 April 1944
Assigned to ATC India China Wing, based at Station 7, Sookerating, Assam, India.
26 June 1944
Destroyed 30 km northwest of Sookerating, Assam, India in a mid-air explosion (4/4 fatalities). [MACR 6120]
Crew:
Capt Karl H. Turner, Pilot
2nd Lt Frank J. Grimmer, Copilot
Cpl Walter Heuer
PFC George Marich
14 July 1944
Condemned for salvage.