Commando 41-24643

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-20-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24643

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26564

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU204

FATE: Written off

  July 1943 to September 1944

  41-24643 - USAAF (USA)

20 July 1943

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

20 August 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing based in Chabua, Assam, India.

29 January 1944

Received major damage at Chabua, Assam, India in a ground loop after an engine failure.

Pilot: Edward W. Higgins

2 February 1944

Condemned for salvage.

1 May 1944

Reinstated.

5 September 1944

Damaged beyond repair, “washout”.

[this Commando is quoted by AAIR as missing over CBI theatre on 11 February 1944 instead the above events]