Commando 41-12309

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12309

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26436

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU76

FATE: Written off

  March 1943 to September 1943

  41-12309 - USAAF (USA)

23 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. [quoted as being assigned to 125th Transport Group, but unit is unknown]

15 September 1943

Crashed enroute near Fort Hertz, Burma.

The Commando was operating a flight from Chunking, Sichuan, China to Chabua, Assam, India and suffered and engine failure. [MACR 1152]

18 September 1943

Condemned for salvage.