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Commando 41-12317

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12317

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26444

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU84

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  March 1943 to May 1943

  41-12317 - USAAF (USA)

20 March 1943

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

Assigned to New Castle AAB, DE.

7 April 1943

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

1 May 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

20 May 1943

Crashed over the China-Burma-India theatre, condemned for salvage.

Last edited: 15/05/2019