Commando 41-12427

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-12427

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26554

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU194

FATE: Written off

  July 1943 to May 1945

  41-12427 - USAAF (USA)

8 July 1943

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

2 August 1943

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

26 August 1943

Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India when it struck parked Commando 41-24647 while landing.

Pilot: Thomas F. Nolan

12 October 1943

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

Pilot: Richard C. Dineen

27 October 1943

Received major damage in Chabua, Assam, India in a landing accident.

Pilot: Roy L. Pratt

31 December 1943

Damaged beyond repair in Mohanbari, Assam, India during a crash landing.

From here, it seems the Commando was shipped back to the USA, repaired, and reinstated. Otherwise, there might be a confusion and the following events happened to another airframe.

26 April 1944

Assigned to the 2^nd Combat Cargo Group, 7^th Combat Cargo Squadron, newly formed at Syracuse AAB, NY.

27 September 1944

Damaged beyond repair in Utica, NY in a landing accident.

Pilot: Harold L. Eastland

4 October 1944

Surveyed, probably at the Rome Air Materiel Area based at the Rome Air Depot, NY.

  May 1945

  41-12427 - RFC (RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION) (USA)

8 May 1945

Transferred to RFC as scrap.