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Commando 41-12410

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12410

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26537

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU177

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  June 1943 to August 1945

  41-12410 - USAAF (USA)


21 June 1943

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

7 July 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 29th Transport Group, 100th Transport Squadron based in Sookerating, Assam, India.

10 July 1943

Damaged at RAF Ondal, Bengal, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: W. F. Matheson

14 November 1943

Involved in a taxi accident in Sookerating, Assam, India but not damaged.

Pilot: Nicholas S. Davenport

23 January 1944

Received major damage in Kunming, Yunnan, China in a taxi accident.

Pilot: John P. Onoff

16 October 1944

Assigned to Karachi, Sindh, India.

25 August 1945

Condemned for salvage, probably by the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

Last edited: 07/01/2019