Commando 41-12424
Aircraft Identification
VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-15-CU Commando
USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12424
CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26551
COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU191
FATE: Written off
Operational Record
July 1943 to January 1944
41-12424 - USAAF (USA)
5 July 1943
Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.
31 July 1943
Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.
17 January 1944
Went missing over the China-Burma-India theatre. [MACR 2044]
Pilot: Benjamin D. Laubacher Jr., survived
25 January 1944
Condemned for salvage.