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Commando 41-12397

Aircraft Identification

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-15-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12397

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26524

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU164

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  June 1943 to January 1944

  41-12397 - USAAF (USA)


13 June 1943

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

29 June 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

20 December 1943

Went missing over China (4/4 missing).

The Commando had taken off from Mohanbari, Assam, India, enroute to Yunnan, China. It crashed into a lake near Kunming, Yunnan, China for unknown reasons.

Pilot: Henry C. Stevenson

22 January 1944

Condemned for salvage.