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Commando 41-12409

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12409

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26536

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU176

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  June 1943 to November 1943

  41-12409 - USAAF (USA)


23 June 1943

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

19 July 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 30th Transport Group, 303rd Transport Squadron based in Mohanbari, Assam, India.

1 November 1943

Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 1105]

Pilot: Wilbrod J. Lapine

3 November 1943

Condemned for salvage.