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Commando 41-24646

Aircraft Identification

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

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24646

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26567

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU207

FATE: Written off

Operational Record

  July 1943 to September 1943

  41-24646 - USAAF (USA)


21 July 1943

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

20 August 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing, 1st Transport Group, 6th Transport Squadron based in Chabua, Assam, India.

21 September 1943

Damaged beyond repair in a takeoff accident from Mohanbari, Assam, India (0/3 fatalities).

Pilot: Robert H. Pyle

22 September 1943

Condemned for salvage.