Commando 41-12401

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12401

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26528

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU168

FATE: Written off

  June 1943 to July 1943

  41-12401 - USAAF (USA)

15 June 1943

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

30 June 1943

Damaged beyond repair at Wideawake Field, Ascension Island in a landing accident. [attributed erroneously by some sources to 41-12398].

The Commando was being ferried from the USA to Assam, India.

Pilot: Benjamin D. Laubacher

3 July 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, but not taken up.

Condemned for salvage.