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Commando 41-12298

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-5-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12298

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26425

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU65

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  March 1943 to August 1943

  41-12298 - USAAF (USA)


26 March 1943

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

Assigned to New Castle AAB, DE.

1 May 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 22nd Transport Group, 78th Transport Squadron, based at Jorhat, Assam, India.

1 July 1943

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 318]

7 August 1943

Condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 15/05/2019