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Commando 41-12319

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12319

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26446

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU86

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  March 1943 to August 1943

  41-12319 - USAAF (USA)

26 March 1943

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

Assigned to New Castle AAB, DE.

22 April 1943

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

1 May 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

3 August 1943

Crashed on takeoff from Kunming, Yunnan, China following a left engine fire.

Last edited: 15/05/2019