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Commando 41-12426

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12426

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26553

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU193

FATE: Unknown

Operational Record

  July 1943 to July 1944

  41-12426 - USAAF (USA)


8 July 1943

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

31 August 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 1st Transport Group, 3rd Transport Squadron based in Chabua, Assam, India.

5 September 1943

Received major damage in Yunnanyi, Yunnan, China in a landing accident. [this accident reported in Fenny by JB, typo?]

Pilot: Joseph T. Turner

25 July 1944

Destroyed while parked in Fenny, Bengal, India by a landing aircraft.

1 June 1946

Excluded.

Last edited: 17/01/2019